英语词汇“apron-string hold or tenure”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

The string with which an apron is tied on. apron-string hold or tenure: tenure of property in virtue of one's wife, or during her life-time only. tied to the apron-strings (of a mother, wife, etc.): unduly controlled by her, wholly under her influence. Also transferred.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > that covers or protects other clothing > apron > parts of

apron-string1542

bib1687

society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [noun] > tenure by virtue of one's wife

apron-string hold or tenure1647

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > [noun] > wife > domineering wife > indicating

apron-string1678

society > authority > subjection > in or into subjection [phrase] > completely subservient to > one's wife or mother

tied to the apron-strings1848

1542 N. Udall in tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 118 As wise as a gooce, or as wise as her mothers aperen string.

1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 63 Apron-string tenure is very weak.

1678 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. (ed. 2) 226 To hold by the Apron-strings. i.e. in right of his wife.

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia iii. iii. 115 They..would subjugate us, as they do all others that are harness'd witte the Apron-strings of Trade.

1743 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Nov. xvi. 118 One of my Neighbours..being possessed of a House and large Orchard by Apron-string-hold, felled almost all his Fruit-Trees, because he every day expected the death of his sick wife.

1804 A. L. Barbauld Life Richardson in S. Richardson Corr. I. 160 All her fortune in her own power—a very apron-string tenure.

1825 Eng. Life I. 165 A man of your inches ought to be above making such an apron-string booby of yourself.

1848 A. Brontë Tenant of Wildfell Hall I. iii. 44 Even at his age, he ought not to be always tied to his mother's apron string.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 649 He could not submit to be tied to the apron strings even of the best of wives.

1960 Times 26 Apr. 16/2 The drama..points insistently, in the last two acts, away from Rimsky-Korsakov's apron-strings.

单词	apron-string hold or tenure
释义	> as lemmas apron-string hold or tenure The string with which an apron is tied on. apron-string hold or tenure: tenure of property in virtue of one's wife, or during her life-time only. tied to the apron-strings (of a mother, wife, etc.): unduly controlled by her, wholly under her influence. Also transferred. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > that covers or protects other clothing > apron > parts of apron-string1542 bib1687 society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [noun] > tenure by virtue of one's wife apron-string hold or tenure1647 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > [noun] > wife > domineering wife > indicating apron-string1678 society > authority > subjection > in or into subjection [phrase] > completely subservient to > one's wife or mother tied to the apron-strings1848 1542 N. Udall in tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 118 As wise as a gooce, or as wise as her mothers aperen string. 1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 63 Apron-string tenure is very weak. 1678 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. (ed. 2) 226 To hold by the Apron-strings. i.e. in right of his wife. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia iii. iii. 115 They..would subjugate us, as they do all others that are harness'd witte the Apron-strings of Trade. 1743 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Nov. xvi. 118 One of my Neighbours..being possessed of a House and large Orchard by Apron-string-hold, felled almost all his Fruit-Trees, because he every day expected the death of his sick wife. 1804 A. L. Barbauld Life Richardson in S. Richardson Corr. I. 160 All her fortune in her own power—a very apron-string tenure. 1825 Eng. Life I. 165 A man of your inches ought to be above making such an apron-string booby of yourself. 1848 A. Brontë Tenant of Wildfell Hall I. iii. 44 Even at his age, he ought not to be always tied to his mother's apron string. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 649 He could not submit to be tied to the apron strings even of the best of wives. 1960 Times 26 Apr. 16/2 The drama..points insistently, in the last two acts, away from Rimsky-Korsakov's apron-strings. extracted from apron-stringn. < as lemmas
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