单词 | irish-made |
释义 | > as lemmasIrish-made a. Locative and complementary, as in Irish-looking, Irish-made, Irish-sounding, etc., adjectives. ΚΠ 1829 in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1954) XI. 104 An attempt to choke John Bull with Irish-made dishes. 1830 Daily National Jrnl. (Washington, D.C.) 13 Nov. The descent of an Irish-looking man. 1857 J. G. Swan North-west Coast xviii. 311 I believe that there are more Irish-sounding words in the Chehalis language than there are Hebrew. 1888 Daily News 25 May 2/2 Large quantities of Irish-made lace, embroidery, sprigging, &c., are regularly sent to the Continent. 1913 Bull. National Assoc. Wool Manufacturers June 199 These rugs are Irish designed, Irish dyed, Irish made and Irish finished, and they challenge the world. 1925 Times 31 Jan. 10/2 There was not one of the more Irish-sounding passages. 1988 A. M. Greeley Angel Fire (1989) xxxv. 320 These three bigots did not believe it possible that someone as Irish-seeming as I am..could possibly be a distinguished scientist. 1994 Nature Conservancy May–June 11 ‘What was that,’ I ask, turning to John, my Irish-looking Belizean guide. < as lemmas |
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