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单词 high-borne
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high-borneadj.

Brit. /ˈhʌɪbɔːn/, /ˌhʌɪˈbɔːn/, U.S. /ˈhaɪˌbɔrn/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: high adv., borne adj.1
Etymology: < high adv. + borne adj.1
Raised or carried high above the ground; borne high in the air.
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tragical1533
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buskina1593
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full-mouthed1594
high-pitched1594
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full-mouth1595
high-borne1596
altisonant1612
Roman1619
high-sounding1624
transcendent1631
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loud1651
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grandiloquent1656
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tall1670
elevate1673
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sounding1683
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grandific1727
magniloquous1727
orotund1799
superb1825
spread eagle1839
grandiose1840
magnisonanta1843
togated1868
elevated1875
mandarin1959
1596 M. Drayton Mortimeriados sig. C2v They perforce their high-borne top must vayle, This storme still blew so stifly on their sayle.
1643 Publique Confider 5 But good God into what lamentable times are we now falne;..from a high borne storme, not confidering of a calme, to an unmoved rocke.
1776 Edward & Isabella in Poems 19 Far from my straining sight Mirth less'ning flies; Wealth drops the high-borne crest, and glittering dies.
1871 in W. Whitman Leaves of Grass (rev. ed.) 358 Her high-borne turban'd head she wags.
1896 J. Lumsden Battle of Dunbar & Prestonpans 4 Around the hill, down to the sea, The war-cluds roll'd, and when they rose Were seen, high-borne, an' fluttering free, The sacred flags o' friends an' foes.
1916 B. Tarkington Seventeen xxvii. 282 ‘Nice tongue samwich, lady!’ he announced, semi-cake-walking beneath his high-borne tray.
1947 R. Lillard Great Forest in Life 3 Nov. 49/1 Here was the fresh, natural surface of the planet, green leaves high-borne on dark trunks, shading the damp and mossy mold of the centuries.
2005 J. Ciment Tattoo Artist xiii. 126 A high-borne breeze wafted through the reed walls and kept the mosquitoes away.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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