| 单词 | fool-gallant |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfool-gallant. b. With other nouns, with the sense ‘that is both a fool and a ——’, as in fool-gallant., fool-god. ΚΠ 1596 H. Clapham Briefe of Bible 55 And shall wee admit foolish Boyes, or Foole-Elders into the Church. 1621 J. Taylor Superbiæ Flagellum sig. B5 This foole-god daigned there to be a guest, Who by himselfe was at a table plac'd. 1714 A. Pope Chaucer's Wife of Bath in R. Steele Poet. Misc. 8 Or else her Wit some Fool-Gallant procures. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam cxxv. 195 Ev'n tho' thrice again The red fool-fury of the Seine Should pile her barricades with dead. View more context for this quotation 1887 D. C. Murray & H. Herman One Traveller Returns vii. 100 A fool-dancer, in his ochre-smeared kilt and headdress..sprang and contorted for a reward. 1986 G. Greer Shakespeare v. 103 Plain-speaking and tongue-tied sincerity was a rhetorical convention like any other, but Shakespeare clung to it, embodied in fool-poets, in chuckleheaded peasants and witty children. < as lemmas |
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