| 单词 | all the colours of the rainbow |
| 释义 | > as lemmasall the colours of the rainbow P1. all the colours of the rainbow and variants. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > variegation > [noun] > rainbow colours all the colours of the rainbow1562 1562 G. Legh Accedens of Armory f. 171 A flower de luse Sable. Althoughe thys be of Coloure Sable, yet naturally it hath all ye colours of a Raine bowe. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 167 He changeth..like the Chamæleon, to al colours of the Rainebowe. 1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor iv. v. 108 I haue bene beaten all the colours in the Rainbow. c1645 W. Atkins Relation of Journey (1994) 228 Our constant diet was bread... It had in it more coloures than the raynebow. 1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. xliv. 311 Mistinesses of all the colours in the rainbow twinkling upon my deluged eye. 1834 J. W. Croker Let. 10 June in Croker Papers (1884) II. 226 The women dressed in all the colours of the rainbow. 1933 E. A. Powell Slanting Lines of Steel xviii. 280 Those long, thin craft, streaked and striped and ringed and dappled with half the colors of the rainbow. 1991 P. O'Brian Nutmeg of Consol. (1993) ix. 259 They have seen all the colours of the rainbow, they do not have to top it the nob. < as lemmas |
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