单词 | dame fortune |
释义 | > as lemmasDame Fortune a. Prefixed as a title to the name of a lady or woman of rank; = Lady, Mistress, Miss. Now only figurative in personifications, as Dame Fortune, Dame Nature. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > title > title or form of address for persons of rank > [noun] > for woman of rank > prefixed to name dam1297 damec1305 madama1375 madame1617 the1730 La1869 society > society and the community > social class > nobility > title > title or form of address for persons of rank > [noun] > for woman of rank > for names of goddesses or personifications ladyc1275 Dame Fortunec1305 the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [noun] > nature > personified as a female being naturea1393 motherc1525 workmistress1568 Dame Nature1669 c1305 Saints' Lives in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 71 Tuei maidenes clene ynou hire douȝtren were also Dame Margerie and dame Alice..Dame Mabille þe gode moder þis children louede ynou. c1386 G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale 151 The Emperours doghter dame Custance. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 23719 Dame [Gött. Dam] fortune turnes þan hir quele. 1413 J. Lydgate Pilgr. of Sowle (1859) i. i. 1 The noble worthy lady dame Misericord. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 114 Me thocht dame Fortoun..Stude me beforne. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 119 Alexander king of Scottes maryed dame Jane the sister of king Henry. 1593 [see sense 2a]. 1600 F. Thynne Emblemes & Epigr. (1876) 59 Dame Lais is a puritane. 1669 A. Browne Ars Pictoria (1675) 14 Dame Nature is extremely Various in her Representations. < as lemmas |
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