单词 | daylight colour |
释义 | > as lemmasdaylight colour a. With the sense ‘of or belonging to daylight’, as daylight colour, daylight conditions, daylight hours, daylight world, etc. ΚΠ 1597 J. Lyly Woman in Moone i. sig. Aiiiv Mine eyes? then gouerne thou my daylight carre. 1633 G. Herbert Temple: Sacred Poems 73 Shepherd and flock shall sing, and all my powers Out-sing the day-light houres. 1638 R. Brathwait Psalmes Paraphr. iii. lxxvii. 147 Thy thunder-shot roar'd round about, the world with lightnings shone; The earth was stirr'd, and shooke, in doubt, her day-light lamp was gone. a1727 I. Newton Opticks (1730) i. ii. 158 Their own Day-light Colours. 1753 W. Hogarth Anal. Beauty xii. 95 Clear enough to imitate a day-light piece. 1842 G. S. Faber Provinc. Lett. (1844) II. 301 Through darkling suggestions rather than through day-light assertions. 1891 Electr. Times 24 Dec. 222/1 Last week Chrome and I discussed the possibility of ever being able to work in colour with the aid of the electric light as successfully as under daylight conditions. 1939 H. Miller Cosmological Eye 287 One might think that in this retreat from the daylight world we are about to be ushered into an hermetically sealed laboratory in which only the ego flourishes. 2010 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 14 Oct. 44/4 The garment trade, which for well over a century had claimed the daylight hours. < as lemmas |
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