英语词汇“apple-grey”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

apple-grey adj. (and n.) [compare much earlier foreign-language parallels discussed at dapple-grey adj.] rare = dapple-grey adj.

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the world > matter > colour > variegation > stripiness > [adjective] > streaked > with specific colour

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c1465 Care of Horses (Yale Beinecke 163) f. 50 Appulle grey is next best. He is best next of he haue a white mane and white taille and faire blakke dappell on the lemys.

1572 in W. Mackay & H. C. Boyd Rec. Inverness (1911) I. 212 Ane apill gray horse.

1640 King & North. Man 54 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. IV. 295 As though his eyes were apple gray.

1825 Lady Maisry in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1885) II. 120/1 Fair fa that bonny apple-gray That carried this gay lord away!

1850 T. Keightley Fairy Mythol. (new ed.) 162 The Icelandic Neck, Kelpie, or Water-Spirit..appears always in the form of a fine apple-grey horse on the sea-shore.

1956 Times 10 Mar. 8/6 It was a dappled cob..that provided my first ride. Dear Apple Grey!]

2004 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 23 June 18 Chaucer used ‘pomely-gray’, an English translation of the French gris-pommele or apple-gray, to describe blotchy apples. Looks as if dapple was simply a corruption of apple.

单词	apple-grey
释义	> as lemmas apple-grey apple-grey adj. (and n.) [compare much earlier foreign-language parallels discussed at dapple-grey adj.] rare = dapple-grey adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > variegation > stripiness > [adjective] > streaked > with specific colour apple-greyc1465 red-streaked1662 c1465 Care of Horses (Yale Beinecke 163) f. 50 Appulle grey is next best. He is best next of he haue a white mane and white taille and faire blakke dappell on the lemys. 1572 in W. Mackay & H. C. Boyd Rec. Inverness (1911) I. 212 Ane apill gray horse. 1640 King & North. Man 54 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. IV. 295 As though his eyes were apple gray. 1825 Lady Maisry in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1885) II. 120/1 Fair fa that bonny apple-gray That carried this gay lord away! 1850 T. Keightley Fairy Mythol. (new ed.) 162 The Icelandic Neck, Kelpie, or Water-Spirit..appears always in the form of a fine apple-grey horse on the sea-shore. 1956 Times 10 Mar. 8/6 It was a dappled cob..that provided my first ride. Dear Apple Grey!] 2004 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 23 June 18 Chaucer used ‘pomely-gray’, an English translation of the French gris-pommele or apple-gray, to describe blotchy apples. Looks as if dapple was simply a corruption of apple. extracted from applen. < as lemmas
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