| 单词 | amber-coloured |
| 释义 | > as lemmasamber-coloured C1. General use in various types of compound, as in amber-coloured, amber-eyed, amber-rich, amber-tinted, adjs., etc. Chiefly poetic in earlier use.See also amber-crowned adj., amber-dropping adj., amber-locked adj., amber-sanded adj. at Compounds 3, and amber-tipped adj., amber-weeping adj. ΚΠ 1587 A. Day Longus's Daphnis & Chloe sig. C4 Shee made a chapelet, and therewith crowned her amber coloured tresses. 1601 J. Weever Mirror of Martyrs sig. Ev If wits pearle-dropping Opobalsamum, In Amber-streaming Eloquence were drie; Vnto my bleached cindars she might come. 1740 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 407/1 On Prussia's amber-yielding shore. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. x. 224 The awful Circe, Goddess amber-hair'd. 1878 A. Nesbitt Descr. Catal. Glass Vessels S. Kensington Mus. 120 Amber-toned glass. 1905 La Crosse (Wisconsin) Tribune 24 Mar. 4/1 O here's a truce to all who dote Upon the amber foaming flagon! 1955 Daily Mail 23 Aug. Maria, chestnut-haired, amber-eyed, and Magdalena, dark-haired, are still on holiday in Portugal. 1990 Glories of Past (Metrop. Mus. Mod. Art, N.Y.) 130/2 All fossil resin seems to have been traded in the areas south of the amber-rich sites bordering the Baltic Sea. 2000 R. D'Amato & J. Snyder Macular Degeneration iii. x. 121 Some patients find that amber-tinted lenses are helpful in..reducing the glare of oncoming headlights. < as lemmas |
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