单词 | city-born |
释义 | > as lemmascity-born city-born adj. and n. ΚΠ 1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales i. viii. 14 A multitude of citie-borne bondmen [L. vernacula multitudo], and after made free. ?a1634 E. Bolton Cities Great Concern in Question of Honour & Arms (1674) 4 Such also as through vanity..disdain to seem either City-born or bred. 1708 W. Crouch Enormous Sin of Covetousness vi. 45 The Romans..would deprive their City-Born Son of a Sepulchre, because he was such a Notorious Lyar. 1898 Appletons' Pop. Sci. Monthly Mar. 595 Less than eight per cent..were the children of city-born parents. 1916 Amer. Printer 5 June 53/2 Items which would seem commonplace to the city-born are to him comedy, drama or tragedy. 2007 Amer. Motorcyclist Sept. 44/2 Being city-born, I hadn't learned that when you see one deer, there are probably more nearby. < as lemmas |
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