| 单词 | foot-cloth mule |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfoot-cloth mule General attributive in sense 2, as foot-cloth horse, foot-cloth mule, foot-cloth page, etc. ΚΠ 1568 T. North tr. A. de Guevara Dial Princes (rev. ed.) iv. ix. f. 132 The courtiers must haue frendshipp also with the porters to open him the court gates that are kept fast cheyned in, that they bee contented to suffer theyr moyle or foote cloth nagge to enter into the vtter court. 1594 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 iv. i. 55 Hast not thou..barehead plodded by my footecloth Mule. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iii. iv. 84 Three times to day, my footecloth horse did stumble. View more context for this quotation ?c1640 W. Rowley et al. Witch of Edmonton (1658) v. i. 41 I'll..Serve some Briarean Footcloth-strider. 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot i. vii. 26 The Mule, and glorious Foot-cloath-pages, and Harbingers, are all too little for these Patriarchs. 1763 Lloyd's Evening Post 22 Aug. 187/1 After this chariot came six more Musicians on foot-cloth horses, habited and attended as the other. 1910 H. T. Stephenson Elizabethan People v. 136 The foot-cloth horse was a staid trotting horse used for show. < as lemmas |
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