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单词 deer-hair
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deer-hairdeer's hairn.

Forms:

α. late Middle English deers-hair, 1700s– deer's hair.

β. see deer n. and hair n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: deer n., hair n.
Etymology: In α. forms < the genitive of deer n. + hair n. In β. forms < deer n. + hair n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈdeer-hair.
1. The hair of deer.
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1494 Act 11 Hen. VII c. 19 Cushions, stuffed with Horse hair..Deers-hair, and Goats-hair.
2. The common name in Scotland and north of England of a small moorland species of club-rush, Scirpus cæspitosus.
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1777 J. Lightfoot Flora Scotica II. App. 1080 [Scirpus cæspitosus] Deer's Hair. Scotis australibus.
a1802 J. Leyden Ld. Soulis lxvi And on the spot, where they boil'd the pot, The spreat and the deer-hair ne'er shall grow.
1816 W. Scott Old Mortality i, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 24 Moss, lichen, and deer-hair, are fast covering those stones.
1853 G. Johnston Terra Lindisfarnensis I. 203 Deer's Hair. Abundantly on all our moors.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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