| 单词 | false eyelashes |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfalse eyelashes d. Of hair, teeth, etc.: Artificially made or adapted. Also false eyelashes, false nose, and in more general sense. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > prosthesis or spare part > [adjective] false1591 artificial1635 prosthetic1872 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Cabelléra A false heare, or peruke. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 168 Hired women, who for fiue houres space..howle bitterly, teare their false haire [etc.]. 1795 E. Wynne Diary 31 Dec. (1937) II. 59 The poor Man has a dozen false teeth in his mouth. 1818 Ld. Byron Beppo lxiii. 33 One has false curls. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 329 Gentlemen..with..false noses. 1873 Young Englishwoman Oct. 518/2 Will the Editor kindly say if there is anything revolting in wearing false teeth? 1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 16 Apr. 3/2 The false teeth are nothing but animal teeth attached to the human teeth by means of small gold plates. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 605/1 Where pheasants exist in any number, a ‘false covert’ of spruce and fir loppings should be made at the point to which it is desirable to force the birds. 1939 L. MacNeice Autumn Jrnl. xv. 57 False eyelashes and finger-nails of carmine. 1954 L. MacNeice Autumn Sequel xxiii. 141 That Christmas should be white Is something we go on with, like false noses. < as lemmas |
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