| 单词 | goat-feet |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgoat-feet goat-feet n. and adj. (a) n. (with reference to a satyr, faun, etc.) the feet of a goat; feet like those of a goat; †(b) adj. (of a satyr, faun, etc.) having the feet of a goat; goat-footed (obsolete). [Compare later goat-foot adj. and n. and the discussion at that lemma.] ΚΠ a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. A3 My men like Satyres grazing on the lawnes, Shall with their Goate feete daunce an antick hay. ?1614 W. Drummond Sextain: Sith gone is my Delight in Poems Nymphes of the Forrests..shewing your beautie's Treasure To goate-feete Syluans. 1705 tr. Horace Ode ii. xix, in J. Beaumont Hist. Treat. Spirits iv. 173 The prick'd up Ears of Goat-feet Satyrs. 1863 R. W. Buchanan Undertones 42 I, Pan,..look'd down; and lo, Goat-legs, goat-thighs, goat-feet, uncouth and rude. 1920 E. Sitwell Wooden Pegasus 107 Their goat-feet clattering to the oaten tune cools the heat of noon like water gurgling. 2005 A. S. Wohl tr. G. P. Bellori Lives Mod. Painters 87/1 The savage god stands upright on his goat-feet. < as lemmas |
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