单词 | curt-hose |
释义 | Curt-hosen. Short-boot, -legging, or -greave: a surname given to Robert, eldest son of William the Conqueror; the medieval Latin was Curta ocrea. ΚΠ c1125 William of Malmesbury Gesta Regum Anglorum (1998) I. iv. §389. 700 Genitore..dicente: ‘Per resurrectionem Dei! Probus erit Robelinus Curta Ocrea.’ Hoc enim erat eius cognomen, quod esset exiguus.] 12.. Chron. de Mailros in Rerum Angl. Script. Vet. (1684) I. 160 Rodbertus Curtehose guerram contra patrem suum movit. 1350–70 Eulogium Hist. (1863) III. v. ci. 40 Robertus Courthoese. a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 103 He..beqwathe..to Robert, clepid Curthose, þe duchi of Normandie. 1839 T. Keightley Hist. Eng. (new ed.) I. 97 Robert named Gambeson or ‘Curthose’ from the shortness of his legs. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < n.12.. |
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