| 单词 | fairy loaf |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfairy loaf fairy loaf n. colloquial (now archaic or historical) a fossil sea urchin or echinite. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > subphylum Eleutherozoa > class Echinoidea > fossil fairy stone1646 fairy loaf1827 shepherd's crown1893 shepherd's purse1893 1827 Mirror Lit., Amusem., & Instr. 1 Dec. 372/2 The rustics..particularly regarded a kind of fossil-stone, which much resembled a sea-egg petrified.., and termed them fairy loaves. 1870 E. C. Brewer Dict. Phrase & Fable 284/2 Fairy-loaves,..fossil sea-urchins.., said to be made by the fairies. 1920 H. Bayley Archaic Eng. ii. 65 There is still a current legend that whoso keeps at home a specimen of the fairy loaf will never lack bread. 2011 K. McNamara Star-crossed Stone viii. 129 Fairy loaves were therefore, perhaps, spiritual food to sustain the spirits into the Otherworld and to ensure their immortality. < as lemmas |
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