单词 | jettish |
释义 | jettishadj. Now rare. Jet-black. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > black or blackness > [adjective] > typically black > as jet jet-blacka1477 jetty1477 jetty-black1477 jettish1599 jet1607 1599 R. Linche Fountaine Anc. Fiction sig. H iiijv Ouer this garment she wore one other..of a most perfect iettish hue. 1645 G. Gordon in G. Walker Bards of Bon-accord 63 Bless me, how strange a Light appears Shrowded within those Jettish Spheres. 1683 A. Marsh Confession New Married Couple vi. 128 Oh if all Lovers knew this so well, they would never suffer themselves to be led away captive by the jettish eys, and marble-like breasts,..of women. 1841 Ladies' Compan. Apr. 256/1 The hair was..intensely black... The eyelashes were..of the same jettish hue. 1926 E. Walrond Tropic Death iv. 94 Her hair, long as a jungle elf's was jettish, untethered. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1599 |
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