单词 | crimson-leaved |
释义 | > as lemmascrimson-leaved C1. Forming parasynthetic and instrumental adjectives, as crimson-bloomed, crimson-coloured, crimson-leaved, etc. ΚΠ 1566 J. Studley tr. Seneca Medea i. i. f.3 With crimsen colourd blood of babes harte, their alters wil I staine. 1577 J. Grange Golden Aphroditis sig. G Hyr sweete and eke hyr sugred lippes, softe, rounded lyke the berrie, Right well to me resemble doe the crimson bloomed cherrie. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 291 A crimsin-coloured iuice. 1683 W. Kennett tr. Erasmus Witt against Wisdom 56 Those crimson-died crimes. 1746 J. Warton Odes xiii. 44 Far from grim wolves..Or crimson-crested serpent's hungry hiss. 1786 R. Burns Poems 170 Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r. 1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II ii. lvii. 89 The crimson-scarfed men of Macedon. 1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 19 Fragments of a crimson-colored rock were found by the miners. 1949 H. Wilcox Six Moons in Sulawesi v. 117 The crimson-leaved tabang plant. 1968 L. Blanch Journey into Mind's Eye vii. xxi. 290 I was now conducted to my compartment along a crimson-carpeted corridor. 2006 Private Eye 7 July 27/1 The crimson-lipped arms of a snaggle-toothed matriarch. < as lemmas |
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