| 单词 | horsehair chair |
| 释义 | > as lemmashorsehair chair C1. attributive and in other combinations, as horsehair crest, horsehair-crested adj., horsehair-dresser, horsehair glove, horsehair plume, etc.; in sense ‘covered with a fabric woven of horsehair’, as horsehair chair, horsehair cushion, horsehair sofa, etc. ΚΠ 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 304 The gordius is the seta equina, or horse-hair-worm, of the old writers. 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist II. xxvii. 120 The very horse-hair seats of the chairs. 1852 E. M. Sewell Exper. of Life (1858) xiv. 95 A set of black horsehair chairs and a horsehair sofa. 1853 W. J. Hickie tr. Aristophanes Comedies II. 572 Strife of horse-hair-crested words. 1864 Earl of Derby tr. Homer Iliad vi. 546 Scar'd by the brazen helm and horse-hair plume. 1875 B. Meadows Clin. Observ. 61 Friction with horse hair gloves. 1897 Daily News 30 Apr. 3/3 The daughter of a horsehair dresser. < as lemmas |
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