单词 | coco shell |
释义 | > as lemmascoco shell C1. General attributive and objective, as coco garden, coco grower, coco plantation, coco shell, etc. ΚΠ 1615 T. Roe Jrnl. 21 July in Embassy Sir T. Roe to Court Great Mogul (1899) I. 20 The howse..Roofte with rafters of woode couered with Cocor leaues... Water was brought to euerie man in a Cocor shell. 1704 tr. P. Baldæus Descr. Ceylon in A. Churchill & J. Churchill Coll. Voy. III. 719/2 Some Portugueses being got into a Coco-Garden. 1766 T. A. de Lally Tollendal Memoirs 300 Beauffet, charged with the care of the High Roads, and Coco Plantations. 1836 H. Marshall Contrib. to Nat. & Econ. Hist. Coco-nut Tree 18 The natives are frequently obliged to satisfy the thirst of their cattle with coco water. 1857 Househ. Words 31 Jan. 101/2 The Indian lawgiver was a wise man who made the coco-growers a high and right-hand caste. 1887 T. R. Lombard New Honduras v. 48 The principal cocoa-farm is eighteen miles wide and contains over 22,000 productive trees. 1921 L. R. Freeman Hell's Hatches vi. 65 A little basket of porous coco husk. 1986 G. Davis Moonbird 149 Madai's face tightened with anger, and a coco-shell filled with cool water slipped from his hand. 2010 P. Fraser More Curious than Cautious xvi. 157 Some of the women and children were hauling away the old discarded shingles to rot in the coco groves. < as lemmas |
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