单词 | a case of pistols |
释义 | > as lemmasa case of pistols (also †dags, †rapiers) b. a case of pistols (also †dags, †rapiers): a pair of pistols, rapiers, etc., with or without a container.In quot. 1600 in extended use: a pair of people. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > [noun] > pair or set of weapons a case of pistols1579 stand1702 1579 in G. J. Piccope Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1860) II. 126 One case of pystolles..a case [of] dagges. 1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) ii. xvi. 199/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I The honest traueller is now inforced to ride with a case of dags. a1593 C. Marlowe Tragicall Hist. Faustus (1604) sig. C4v I haue runne vp and downe the worlde, with this case of rapiers. 1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor Dram. Pers. sig. Aivv An inseperable Case of Coxcombs, citie-borne; The Gemini or Twins of fopperie. View more context for this quotation 1637 J. Shirley Hide Parke iv. iii. 239 I will not change my tool For a case of rapiers. a1645 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals (1852) iii. i. 53 Streightways follow'd in A case of small musitians. 1786 Gentleman's Mag. May 391/1 I did present the Prince de Ligne with a most superb case of pistols. 1832 G. Downes Lett. from Continental Countries I. 304 [He] discharged in the act a case of pistols. 1897 M. E. Coleridge King with Two Faces xi. 73 A gun hung over the mantelpiece, and a case of pistols and a sword lay on the table. 1915 Jrnl. County Louth Archaeol. Soc. 3 402 In a list of the 115 Papists in Ireland who had licenses to keep arms (one sword, one gun and one case of pistols) in 1704 there is only one Louthman. 2010 C. Camp Lady never Tells xviii. 282 They dug out the case of pistols and loaded them, concealing one in Camellia's pocket and the other in Lily's. < as lemmas |
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