英语词汇“even ash”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

even ash n. (also more fully even ash-leaf) British regional (now chiefly historical) a rare form of ash leaf having an even number (rather than the usual odd number) of leaflets, and thought to bring good luck or to have efficacy in divining future love.Often in rhyming incantations recited while the leaf is held.

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1832 W. Hone Year Bk. Daily Recreation 1175 The even ash-leaf in my hand, The first I meet shall be my man.

1879 W. Henderson Notes Folk-lore Northern Counties (rev. ed.) iv. 110 Equally auspicious..is a four-leaved clover or an even ash-leaf.

1919 I. N. McFee Tree Bk. ii. ix. 189 This is called the even ash, and to find one is every whit as lucky as to find a four-leafed clover.

2010 Mid Devon Gaz. (Electronic ed.) 22 July 62 Even ash I do thee pluck, Hoping thus to meet good luck.

单词	even ash
释义	> as lemmas even ash even ash n. (also more fully even ash-leaf) British regional (now chiefly historical) a rare form of ash leaf having an even number (rather than the usual odd number) of leaflets, and thought to bring good luck or to have efficacy in divining future love.Often in rhyming incantations recited while the leaf is held. ΚΠ 1832 W. Hone Year Bk. Daily Recreation 1175 The even ash-leaf in my hand, The first I meet shall be my man. 1879 W. Henderson Notes Folk-lore Northern Counties (rev. ed.) iv. 110 Equally auspicious..is a four-leaved clover or an even ash-leaf. 1919 I. N. McFee Tree Bk. ii. ix. 189 This is called the even ash, and to find one is every whit as lucky as to find a four-leafed clover. 2010 Mid Devon Gaz. (Electronic ed.) 22 July 62 Even ash I do thee pluck, Hoping thus to meet good luck. extracted from evenadj.¹n.² < as lemmas
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