| 单词 | alum-soaked |
| 释义 | > as lemmasalum-soaked b. Forming adjectives, as alum-bearing, alum-soaked, alum-steeped, etc. ΚΠ 1837 S. Smith Let. in Wks. (1859) II. 277/1 Let him drive his alum-steeped loaves a little further. 1847 Quarterly Jrnl. 3 June 36 In large tracts of Sweden they [sc. the Lower Silurian rocks]are more expanded,..and with the same alum-bearing schists as in Norway. 1876 Sat. Rev. 23 Dec. 781/2 He could see that the alum-soaked winding-sheet still enfolded the body. 1922 Reclam. Rec. Jan. 4/0 There are numerous deposits of alum and alum-bearing rocks and shales in the western United States. 1996 C. Quigley Corpse iii. 53 American colonists restrained putrefaction by wrapping the body in an alum-soaked cloth. < as lemmas |
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