英语词汇“fair and free”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. fair and free: beautiful and noble; used as a conventional complimentary epithet, originally and chiefly for a woman. Cf. free adj. 3a. Now archaic and rare.

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c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) l. 100 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 109 Þe Amirales douȝter..þat was so fair and fre.

a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) (1891) l. 633 Myrthe that is so faire and fre.

c1440 (?a1400) Sir Perceval (1930) l. 3 Lef, lythes to me, Two wordes or thre, Off one þat was faire and fre.

1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus iii. f. 45^v Sichem the prince of that countre, Had reft Dina thair sister fair and fre.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. x. 6 Entred in, a spatious court they see..Where them does meete a francklin faire and free.

1645 J. Milton L'Allegro in Poems 31 Com thou Goddes fair and free, In Heav'n ycleap't Euphrosyne.

?1650 T. Jordan Claraphil & Clarinda sig. D3 If she be fair and free, She must see that in thee.

1731 G. Lillo Silvia i. xi. 20 How happy is that Woman's Life, Who, fair and free, has Wealth in store!

1785 W. Hayley Poems & Plays IV. 29 My Lucy, Lucy fair and free.

1826 E. N. Shannon Crazed Maid of Venice & Other Poems 60 But as the wife agreed, quite well, With her gay rival, fair and free.

1867 L. Jewitt Ballads Derbyshire 23 That lady so fair and free With rudd as red as rose in May.

1905 A. C. Benson Peace 99 I praise thee, Eton, thou art fair and free.

单词	fair and free
释义	> as lemmas fair and free a. fair and free: beautiful and noble; used as a conventional complimentary epithet, originally and chiefly for a woman. Cf. free adj. 3a. Now archaic and rare. ΚΠ c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) l. 100 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 109 Þe Amirales douȝter..þat was so fair and fre. a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) (1891) l. 633 Myrthe that is so faire and fre. c1440 (?a1400) Sir Perceval (1930) l. 3 Lef, lythes to me, Two wordes or thre, Off one þat was faire and fre. 1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus iii. f. 45^v Sichem the prince of that countre, Had reft Dina thair sister fair and fre. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. x. 6 Entred in, a spatious court they see..Where them does meete a francklin faire and free. 1645 J. Milton L'Allegro in Poems 31 Com thou Goddes fair and free, In Heav'n ycleap't Euphrosyne. ?1650 T. Jordan Claraphil & Clarinda sig. D3 If she be fair and free, She must see that in thee. 1731 G. Lillo Silvia i. xi. 20 How happy is that Woman's Life, Who, fair and free, has Wealth in store! 1785 W. Hayley Poems & Plays IV. 29 My Lucy, Lucy fair and free. 1826 E. N. Shannon Crazed Maid of Venice & Other Poems 60 But as the wife agreed, quite well, With her gay rival, fair and free. 1867 L. Jewitt Ballads Derbyshire 23 That lady so fair and free With rudd as red as rose in May. 1905 A. C. Benson Peace 99 I praise thee, Eton, thou art fair and free. extracted from fairadj.n.¹ < as lemmas
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