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单词 horse race
释义

horse racen.

Forms: see horse n. and race n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: horse n., race n.1
Etymology: < horse n. + race n.1 Compare horse racing n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈhorse-race.
A race by horses (with riders).
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a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. F4v Phillip of Macedon reckoned a horse-race wonne at Olimpus, among hys three fearefull felicities.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 198 No meane Lordes..and Gentlemen in our Court had in like sort put out money upon a horserace, or speedie course of a horse, under themselves.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §699 In horseraces men are curious that there be not the least weight upon one horse more than upon another.
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 462. ⁋4 To glory in being the first Man at Cock-matches, Horse-races.
1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto III lxxxv. 45 Pindar sang horse-races.
attributive.1629 tr. Herodian Hist. (1635) 426 Cirque (margin, Or Horse-race-yard, able to hold above 20000).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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