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单词 noseless
释义 noseless, a.|ˈnəʊzlɪs|
[f. nose n.]
Destitute or deprived of a nose; that has lost the nose.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. xlvii. (Bodl. MS.), Somme beþ all heedles and noseles.1509Barclay Shyp of Folys (1570) 88 For he that is sure, and to a fray will renne, May fortune come home agayne noselesse or lame.1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. v. v. 34 His mangled Myrmidons, That noselesse, handlesse, hackt and chipt, come to him; Crying on Hector.1646J. Hall's Poems To Mr. Hall, Thou need'st no nose-lesse monuments display.1727Gay Fables i. xlvii, My shanks, sunk eyes, and noseless face Prove my pretension to the place.1800W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. VIII. 727 O'er the pale picture, and the noseless bust, Oblivion strews a soft sepulchral dust.1862Temple Bar V. 524 A noseless face would have no divinity.
Hence ˈnoselessly adv.; ˈnoselessness.
1752Richardson Let. to Mrs. Donnellan 22 Feb., Amelia, even to her noselessness, is again his first wife.1855Thackeray Newcomes xxxv, Senators namelessly, noselessly, noiselessly seated.1870Daily News 6 June, The causes leading up to the..noselessness of ‘the brigands' heads’.
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