| 单词 | golden-bay |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgolden-bay a. generally used of horses, and taken to include various shades. Hence qualified as bright-bay, light-bay, blood-bay, golden-bay. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > colour or marking > [adjective] > sorrel, bay, or chestnut bayc1374 sorea1400 sorrelled1403 sored1420 favel1490 bullace-bay1690 the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [adjective] > reddish brown > bay bayard1330 bayc1374 bayedc1440 bay-coloured1591 bullace-bay1690 bayish1697 bay-brown1852 brown-bay- c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde i. 1072 His stede bay. 1420 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 53 A bay hors þat was Gerards my son. 1460 Lybeaus Disc. 462 An stedes baye brown. 1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Tijv All horses be not of one colour, but..some baye, some daple. 1612 H. Peacham Graphice i. xxiv. 91 A bay or a Chesnut colour, of all others it is most to bee commended in horses. 1671 London Gaz. No. 636/4 Stoln..a Bay Ball Nag. 1716 J. Addison Drummer v. 47 Coach. I have a poor horse... Sir G. A bay gelding. 1823 J. G. Lockhart Vow Reduan in Anc. Spanish Ballads He spurred his bright bay mare. 1860 J. Brown Horæ Subs., My Father's Mem. His little blood bay horse. < as lemmas |
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