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单词 fair-ankled
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fair-ankled
(a) Forming (chiefly parasynthetic) adjectives, as fair-ankled, fair-bearded, fair-natured, etc.Some of the more established compounds of this type are treated separately.
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OE Paternal Precepts 12 Wes þu þinum yldrum arfæst symle, fægerwyrde.
1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 13 He was A man fayre formed. and of large stature.
?1526 G. Hervet tr. Erasmus De Immensa Dei Misericordia Table Termes sig. M.vi/2 Eloquent, fayre langaged.
1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse xv. f. 81 He was comely and fair-visag'd.
?1624 G. Chapman tr. Crowne Homers Wks. 148 Her faire-anckl'd Mother.
1634 J. Ford Chron. Hist. Perkin Warbeck v. sig. I4 Young Buckingham is a fayre natur'd Prince.
1726 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey V. xxiii. 142 Fair-zon'd damsels form the sprightly dance.
1777 R. Potter tr. Æschylus Tragedies 88 Does Jove approach her in this fair-horn'd state?
1795 J. Fawcett Art of War 4 In the number rank'd Of fair-reputed callings.
1820 J. Keats Lamia ii, in Lamia & Other Poems 43 Now no azure vein Wander'd on fair-spaced temples.
1839 Flowers of my Spring 137 Weep for the falseness of fair-worded men.
1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. ix. 288 Angry with me for the sake Of a fair-tressed wanton.
1908 H. Carrington Vitality, Fasting & Nutrition p. vii I shall be only too glad to hear any criticism or fair-spirited attack that may be leveled, either at the book or at myself.
1920 F. Hamilton Days before Yesterday vi. 164 Schrötter was a fair-bearded giant, who was certainly well equipped physically for playing ‘heroic’ parts.
1987 S. E. White in V. Suthren Canad. Stories Sea (1993) 256 The scullion was a fair-skilled, jolly, good-natured young artist.
2011 Business World (Nexis) 8 Feb. s3/6 The 14-track album sees the fair-voiced singer expounding on her strength as an interpreter of popular tunes.
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