单词 | flatteress |
释义 | flatteressn. Obsolete. A female flatterer. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > [noun] > flatterer > female flatteress1484 1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) lxxiii. 103 In her companye she had a woman a flatteresse & a grete lyer. 1569 J. Sanford tr. H. C. Agrippa Of Vanitie Artes & Sci. 154 Wherefore Plato calleth this [Cookery] the flatteresse of Phisicke. 1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een Vleydersse, a Flattresse, or a Flattering woman. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1484 |
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