| 单词 | heel-treading |
| 释义 | > as lemmasheel-treading heel-treading adj. and n. (a) adj. that treads on a person's heels (literal and figurative); (b) n. the action of treading on a person's heels (literal and figurative).The term heel-treading (pace quot. 1812) does not occur in George Puttenham's 1589 work The Arte of English Poesie. ΚΠ 1812 S. E. Brydges & J. Haslewood Brit. Bibliogr. II. 255 The following mode of repeating a portion of the antecedent line, may amuse: Puttenham, in his Art of Poesie, 1589, terms this heel treading kind of verse. 1835 Eclectic Rev. Dec. 493 There is no bustle, no elbowing, or heel-treading, no disorder. 1920 H. A. Franck Roaming through W. Indies xiv. 358 The same incessant cries for alms, the same heel-treading throngs of guides marked our progress. 1990 W. Frisch tr. A. Schubring in Brahms & his World ii. 119 It is this kind of heel-treading, sometimes quite bizarre, that we often encounter in Schumann. < as lemmas |
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