释义 |
ˈcurl-pate a. A curly head. b. A curly-headed person.
1605Camden Rem., Surnames (R.), Compare the Roman names that seeme so stately..what is Crispus but curle-pate. 1615J. Stephens Satyr. Ess. (ed. 2) 214 He thinks to have a curle-pate is to have a visible wit. 1789M. Madan tr. Persius (1795) 17 The exercises of an hundred curl-pates. |