| 单词 | fools motley |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfool’s motley a. In compounds denoting the characteristic dress and accoutrements of a fool (sense A. 2) or jester, as in fool’s bladder, fool’s motley, etc. See also fool's cap n.1, fool's coat n., fool's head n., fool's hood n. Now historical.fool's bauble: see bauble n. III. ΚΠ 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. lxxix. 428 Fashioned like a fooles bable [Fr. en forme de massue de fol]. 1692 J. Washington tr. J. Milton Def. People Eng. Pref. p. xx You..deserve to have your Bones well-thrash'd with a Fool's staff [L. morionis..baculo]. 1728 A. Pope Dunciad i. 72 And with her own fools-colours gilds them all. 1881 ‘Ouida’ Village Commune I. v. 164 Atheism makes a curse a mere rattle of dry peas in a fool's bladder. 1923 A. G. Hales Queen of Hearts 139 He snatched up the fool's bauble and shook it playfully. 2012 K. A. Quarmby Disguised Ruler in Shakespeare & his Contemporaries (2016) i. 31 An image of inversion—the prince, king or duke in fool's motley—that becomes a mainstay of disguised ruler drama. < as lemmas |
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