| 单词 | filmy-eyed |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfilmy-eyed C1. Forming parasynthetic adjectives, as filmy-eyed, filmy-winged, etc. ΚΠ a1822 P. B. Shelley To Night iv, in Posthumous Poems (1824) 155 Thy sweet child Sleep, the filmy-eyed, Murmured like a noon-tide bee. 1860 P. H. Gosse Evenings at Microscope v. 78 Neither of these nor any other ‘winged fowl’ can be compared with many of the filmy-winged Insects. 1898 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 319 The savage notion of the soul as a filmy coloured image. 1909 J. A. Schwartz Wonderful Little Lives i. 4 Filmy-winged mosquitoes flitted out at twilight. 1945 D. Thomas Let. 30 July (1987) 557 The dour and filmy mackintoshed bar-flies who work, or don't, with me. 1998 Daily News (Galveston, Texas) 6 Mar. b6/4 There are all of the earmarks of violence..confronting the filmy dressed and equally violent girlfriend. 2002 N.Y. Times 21 Nov. (Circuits section) g1/4 A filmy-eyed parakeet from the pet department at Grant's. < as lemmas |
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