单词 | feathered with po |
释义 | > as lemmasfeathered with po A peacock. feathered with po: with peacock's feathers. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > [noun] > paro cristatus (peafowl) > male or peacock poeOE peacockc1175 pawnc1400 pavone1590 bird of Juno1655 α. β. a1350 in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 27 (MED) A pruest proud ase a po seþþe weddeþ vs bo.a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) 2 Paralip. ix. 21 Þe shipis of þe king..broȝten þennys gold & siluer & yuer & apis & poos [a1425 L.V. pokokis, v.r. pekokis].c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. B.15.17) (1975) B. xii. 259 By þe po [c1400 Laud pro] feet is vnderstande..false frendes.c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. 6961 (MED) He..fauȝt with him In cors pure, With bowe and arwe fedred with po.1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) 5240 (MED) Was neuere þe tayl gayere of a po.c1500 Three Kings' Sons (1895) 136 Aftir thies wordes, was brought yn a Poo by ij. gentilwomen.1719 Philos. Trans. 1717–19 (Royal Soc.) 30 970 Next under the three Coal Veins is the Peaw Vein, so denominated because the Coal is figured with Eyes resembling a Peacock's Tayl,..which Bird in this Country [sc. Somerset] Dialect is called a Peaw.1835 J. Holland Hist. Collieries & Coal Trade 333 In Staffordshire, this beautiful variety is called peau-coal; peau being the provincial appellation of a peacock.eOE Épinal Gloss. (1974) 43 Pauo, pauua. eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) ii. xvi. 196 Fuglas þa þe heard flæsc habbað, pawa, swan, æned. OE Ælfric Gram. (St. John's Oxf.) 35 Pauo, pawa. OE Antwerp Gloss. (1955) 101 Pauo, pauus, pawe. ?c1350 Ballad Sc. Wars 20 in A. Brandl & O. Zippel Mitteleng. Sprach- u. Literaturproben (1917) 137 (MED) His berd was syde ay large span, And glided [perh. read gilded] als þe fether of pae [rhyme gae, mae]. c1400 Femina (Trin. Cambr.) (1909) 61 (MED) More ys worþ þe skyn of a foyn þan songe of asse oþer of pown, i. pane [read paue]. c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 4983 Þar bade a brid..Was of a port of a paa. < as lemmas |
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