单词 | fiddle-case |
释义 | fiddle-casen. 1. The case in which a fiddle is kept. Also attributive, fiddle-case boots: boots as big as a fiddle-case. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > bowable instrument > [noun] > violin > case for boot1594 fiddle-case1647 violin-case1685 1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 26 To spend their lives in making fidle-cases for futilous womens phansies. 1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 173 Heads..as empty as a fiddle case. 1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (1839) VIII. 71 Half a dozen tall footmen each bearing a fiddle case. 1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour xii. lxvi. 365 Tweed trousers thrust into fiddle-case boots. 2. plural. (See quot. 1878-86). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > cock's-comb yellow rattleOE coxcomba1500 penny-grassa1500 cockcomb1687 rattlebox1866 fiddle-cases1878 lousewort1901 1878–86 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names Fiddle-cases, Rhinanthus crista-galli. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1647 |
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