单词 | angel trumpet |
释义 | > as lemmasangel trumpet a. General use as a modifier, with the sense ‘of or relating to an angel or angels’ or ‘resembling or reminiscent of (that of) an angel; angelic’, as angel choir, angel host, angel music, angel trumpet, angel voice, etc. ΚΠ OE Cynewulf Elene 732 Þu sylf sitest, sigora waldend, ofer þam æðelestan engelcynne. 1586 in W. A. Craigie Maitland Quarto MS (1920) 155 Hir angell Voice. 1611 T. Heywood Golden Age i. sig. C3v Hee's so full of Angell grace I cannot strike. 1645 J. Milton At Solemn Musick in Poems 22 The bright Seraphim..Their loud up-lifted Angel trumpets blow. 1738 J. Wesley Coll. Psalms & Hymns (new ed.) v Shout the Angel-Quires aloud. 1809 Athenæum Mar. 245 Sweet as the notes that soothe the dying pillow, When angel-music calls the saint to heaven. 1833 W. G. Simms Bk. my Lady 59 How could he check the angel grace, That gave such beauty to her face. 1925 Pop. Sci. Monthly Dec. 76/1 A landscape of snow-covered hills.., above which, floating in the clouds, is an angel choir. 2011 Dayton (Ohio) Daily News (Nexis) 13 May g5 You can have this crappy song, and he'll make it sound like angel music. < as lemmas |
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