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单词 columbine
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columbinen.2

/ˈkɒlʌmbʌɪn/
Forms: Middle English–1500s columbyn(e, Middle English colombyne, ? colybyn, 1500s–1600s collombine, collumbine, collumbyne, cullom-, cullam-, cullumbine, cullumbyne, 1600s colombine, Middle English– columbine.
Etymology: < French colombine, in medieval Latin columbīna (? sc. herba ) = dove's plant: see columbine adj.
1. The English name for plants of the genus Aquilegia, esp. the long-cultivated A. vulgaris, or common columbine, the inverted flower of which has some resemblance to five pigeons clustered together.The horned nectaries suggested to an earlier age allusions to cuckoldry: cf. quots. 1604, 1605.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Ranunculaceae (crowfoot and allies) > [noun] > columbine
columbinea1350
cocksfoota1425
hawk's-foota1500
ancoly1561
culverwort1597
aquilegia1599
Jupiter's flower1601
a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 31 Þe primerole he passeþ, the peruenke of pris..Coynte ase columbine such hire cunde ys.
a1400 Pistel of Susan 111 Columbyne and Charuwe.
c1450 Alphita (Anecd. Oxon.) 42.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. clxxxiv The seconde Course. Gely coloured with Columbyne floures.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 207/1 Columbyne floure, cocquelourde.
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Apr. 136 Bring hether the Pincke and purple Cullambine.
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iv. v. 179 There's Fennill for you, and Colembines, there's Rewe for you, & heere's some for me. View more context for this quotation
1605 G. Chapman Al Fooles What's that? a columbine? No: that thankless flower grows not in my garden.
1853 W. C. Bryant Poems (new ed.) 214 Columbines, in purple dressed, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest.
a1861 E. B. Browning Lost Bower xxiv The large-leaved columbine.
2. A name for Verbena officinalis. Obsolete.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > vervain
berbineeOE
ironhardOE
vervain?a1300
verbena?a1425
columbinec1450
holy herb1567
Juno's tears1597
pigeon's grass1597
simpler's joy1754
c1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 170 Berbena..ys culfron swiðe hiwcuð, þanan hy eac sum þeodscipe columbinam hateð.]
c1450 Alphita (Anecd. Oxon.) 142.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 581 Veruain is called..of some Pigeons grasse, or Columbine, bicause Pigeons are delighted to be amongst it.
3. feathered columbine: ‘a frequent book-name for Thalictrum aquilegifolium, an old-fashioned garden plant, which Parkinson calls Tufted Colombine’ (Britten and Holland). Obsolete.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Ranunculaceae (crowfoot and allies) > [noun] > thalictrum or meadow rue
feathered columbine1629
meadow rue1648
meadow rhubarb1656
Thalictrum1664
rue anemone1817
muskrat weed1830
fen-rue1863
feather-columbine1878
1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole 274 Thalictrum Hispanicum album, White Spanish tufted Colombines. Thalictrum Montanum purpureum, Purple tufted Colombines.
4. An ornament in the form of the flower. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > [noun] > flowers
flowerc1230
flourishingc1384
fleuronc1385
rose1415
pansyc1450
columbine1459
lily1459
fleur-de-lis1475
heartseasea1542
honeysuckle1548
flower-work1601
floretry1615
branching1652
fleuret1811
anthemion1816
rosace1823
fleur1841
flowering1862
flowerage1864
millefleurs1908
rosette1931
1436 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 106 A stondynge cuppe gilt, shapp of a columbyn.]
1459 Inventory Sir J. Fastolf's Goods in Paston Lett. I. 473 Item, j. gobelet, gilt, with j. columbyne in the bottom.
1491 Will of Richard Bufford (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/8) f. 327 A colombyne of siluer.
1554 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 145 Oon flat silver pece wt a collumbyne in the bottome.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations.
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1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden ii. 4 Columbine leafed Pyony.
1747 J. Wesley Primitive Physick 80 A Tea-spoonful of Columbine Seeds.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

Columbinen.3

/ˈkɒlʌmbʌɪn/
Forms: In 1700s colombine.
Etymology: < French Colombine or Italian Colombina, feminine proper name, < colombino dove-like.
A character in Italian Comedy, the mistress of Harlequin, transferred to English pantomime or harlequinade.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > pantomime > [noun] > role or character
hobby-horse1557
harlequin1590
play-mare1598
Columbinea1723
clown1727
hobby1778
pantaloon1781
harlequiness1785
Pierrot?1789
pierrette1847
harlequina1867
dobby1879
principal boy1892
principal girl1893
dame1902
a1723 T. D'Urfey Eng. Stage Italianiz'd (1727) Dram. Pers. 8 Colombine, a Coquet, in Love with every Body.
1736 H. Fielding Tumble-down Dick 9 Harlequin re-enters, considering how to regain Colombine.
1749 W. R. Chetwood Gen. Hist. Stage 130 An agreeable Actress when the part suited her voice, a tolerable dancer and a pleasing Colombine.
1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 66 O could I as Harlequin frisk, And thou be my Columbine fair.
1862 All Year Round 13 Sept. 12 Joey and I both fell in love with the columbine. She was a pretty girl and clever, and as good as she was both.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

columbineadj.n.1

/ˈkɒlʌmbʌɪn/
Etymology: Middle English, < French colombin, < Latin columbīnus pertaining to a dove or pigeon, dove-coloured, < columba dove.
A. adj.
1. Of, belonging to, or of the nature of, a dove or pigeon.
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > [adjective] > of or belonging to pigeon and dove
columbaceous1693
columbine1773
peristeronic1868
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Columbine..Dove-like, pertaining to a Dove or Pigeon.
1773 T. Pennant Genera of Birds (1781) Pref. 15 The Columbine race make a most artless nest; a few sticks laid across suffice.
1835 Selby in Penny Cycl. VII. 367/1 The deviation from the proper Columbine form.
2. transferred. Dove-like; resembling the dove as a type of innocence or gentleness. (Frequently with reference to Matthew x. 16.) ? Obsolete.
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c1386 G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale 897 The turtle voys is herd, my dowue sweete..Com forth now with thyne eyen columbyn.
c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1840) 8 Vij maydens..Most columbyne of chere and of lokyng.
1539 R. Taverner Second Bk. Garden of Wysdome sig. A.viiiv To fense our selfes ayenst the wyly and craftye foxes with columbyne prudencie.
a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1883) II. 151 Whether with this serpentine prudence hee had columbine simplicity.
1651 S. Lennard tr. P. Charron Wisdome ii. x Columbine innocency and simplicity.
3. Of the colour of a pigeon's neck, dove-coloured. ? Obsolete.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > grey or greyness > [adjective] > pinkish or purplish grey
columbinec1420
columbe1561
dove-colour1598
dove-coloured1727
lavender-grey1834
lilac-grey1880
dove1895
pinko-grey1953
c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 372 Stone tiburtyne or floody columbyne or spongy rede [cf. Isidore Orig. xix. x. §3 Lapides..Tiburtinus, columbinus, fluvialis, spongia, rubrus].
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Colombino, doue colour: columbine colour.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 506 The Columbine marle, the Gauls call in their language..Pelias (Doue or Pigeon marle).
1635 J. Bate Myst. Nature & Art (ed. 2) iii. 204 Lake and azure make a violet or columbine colour.
1764 T. H. Croker et al. Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. I Columbine-colour, or dove-colour, among painters, denotes a kind of violet.
1805 R. Jameson Treat. External Characters Minerals 18 Pigeon neck or columbine tarnish.
B. n.1
1. Short for columbine colour.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > grey or greyness > [noun] > pinkish or purplish grey
columbine1606
pigeon wing1807
lavender-grey1834
1606 H. Peacham Graphice (1612) 95 Violets, Columbines and the like.
1763 Dict. Arts & Sci. I. 671 From the same mixture of blue, crimson, and red, are formed the columbine, or dove-colour.
2. For columbine vine (vitis columbina in Pliny).
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1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 410 Of all vines, the Columbines yeeld most gleaning.
3. A dove-like person. Obsolete (pronunciation coˈlumbine.)
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1647 J. Hall Poems ii. 72 This innocent Columbine, he, That was the marke of rage before, O cannot now admired be, But still admired, still needs more.
4. Some kind of bird.
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1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 342 He describes a sort of Bird call'd a Columbine, making a Noise like a Bittern.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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