| 单词 | hide and hue |
| 释义 | > as lemmashide and (or) hue 2. External appearance of the face and skin, complexion. Also transferred. (In late use passing into 3.) hide and (or) hue: see hide n.1 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > [noun] bleea1225 huec1275 colourc1300 complexion1580 reward1673 c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12298 Wimmen wunliche on heowen. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 4051 Wimmen..Faiger on sigte..And brigte on hewe. ?a1366 Romaunt Rose 1213 She was not broun ne dun of hewe. c1440 Generydes 1677 How fayre of hewe and womanly she was. c1560 A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) vii. 33 Ȝe ladeis cleir of hew. 1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. ii. 25 The women..contenting themselves only with their naturall hiew. a1816 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal (rev. ed.) Portrait in Wks. (1821) II. 6 The tender hue of female doubt. 1836 H. Smith Tin Trumpet I. 105 Our mental hue depends as completely on the social atmosphere in which we move, as our complexion upon the climate in which we live. < as lemmas |
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