单词 | ice-bearded |
释义 | > as lemmasice-bearded a. Parasynthetic, as ice-bearded, ice-helmed, ice-pillared, ice-ribbed, etc. ΚΠ a1618 J. Sylvester tr. Battail of Yvry in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) 1096 Ice-bearded Boreas. 1742 S. Boyse tr. W. van Haren Praise of Peace i. 8 An ice-crown'd Mountain's Head. 1798 Edinb. Mag. May 384/2 Level with the ice-ribbed bound The yellow harvests glow. 1838 E. Cook Melaia i He burst through the ice-pillar'd gates of the North. 1875 H. W. Longfellow Voices of Waters in Pandora vi. The mountains, the giants, The ice-helmed, the forest-belted. 1921 E. Shanks Island of Youth iii. 102 From snowy slopes and dizzy ice-belted peaks, Stole, with the louder sounding of the waterfall, A still wind hardly moving. 1973 T. Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow i. 58 Creaking snow lanes, arcades of the ice-bearded and bowing trees. 1995 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 12 Nov. vi. ii. 37/1 The storm subsided and a deep, blue-black sky appeared above the ice-ribbed cliffs of Devil's Castle. 2007 India Today Trav. Plus (Nexis) Sept. 53 As the doors are thrown open in welcome, you'll find yourself in an ice-pillared foyer lit by a glittering ice chandelier. < as lemmas |
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