单词 | foot-and-half-foot |
释义 | > as lemmasfoot-and-half-foot ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective] > using words of many syllables > of words: having many syllables sesquipedal1611 foot-and-half-foot1616 sesquipedalian1656 tripod1798 crink-crank1865 1616 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor (rev. ed.) Prol. in Wks. I. 5 With..helpe of some few foot-and-halfe-foote words. 1901 R. B. Cunninghame Graham Vanished Arcadia p. ix Into the whole question of the Jesuits I cannot enter, as it entails command of far more foot and half-foot words than I can muster up. < as lemmas |
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