单词 | courteous prison |
释义 | > as lemmascourteous prison a. transferred. Of personal qualities, words, actions, etc. †courteous prison (French prison courtoise, Italian prigione cortese): honourable imprisonment (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > [noun] > honourable courteous prison1525 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 2256 Bot dryghtin dere þat ai es hend A curtais wrak on þam he send. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 512 Cortays wordez. 1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iii. vi. 134 It is said in a comyn prouerbe, Courtoyse langage and well saynge is moche worth and coste lityll. 1509 J. Fisher Mornynge Remembraunce Countesse of Rychemonde (de Worde) sig. Aii v Full curtayse answere she wolde make to all yt came vnto her. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. lxi. [lxiv.] 205 He was set in a courtoyse pryson, so that he coulde not departe when he wolde. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 287 Taken..and..committed into Curtoyse prison in the Tower. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. vi. sig. F3v When her curteous deeds he did compare. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) v. iv. 71 This is call'd the retort courteous . View more context for this quotation 1872 E. Peacock Mabel Heron II. ii. 25 A kind and courteous letter. 1883 ‘G. Lloyd’ Ebb & Flow I. iii. 50 In her most courteous tones. < as lemmas |
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