| 单词 | laburnum gold |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslaburnum gold C2. Similative, forming nouns and adjectives, as laburnum gold, laburnum-leaved, laburnum yellow, etc. ΚΠ 1691 Hist. Learning xi. 45 A pretty kind of Phaseole with Laburnum-Leaves, and solitary Flowers, a crooked pod in Figure of a Turkish Cymiter. 1778 W. Malcolm Catal. Hot-house & Green-house Plants 8 Crotalaria, Laburniifolia, Laburnum-leaved Crotolaria. 1869 R. F. Burton Explor. Highlands Brazil II. xxvii. 417 As on the uplands of the Rio das Velhas the characteristic colour of the flowers is a laburnum yellow. 1874 Aldine 7 101/3 The ox-eye daisies and the melilot have encamped on all the waste, sandy places—the latter a vetch, with flowers a laburnum yellow. 1899 Daily News 27 Feb. 6/6 Rose-pinks, laburnum-yellows, leaf-greens. 1921 H. De V. Stacpoole Satan xxviii. 238 The great sun..lolled above the reef in a sky of laburnum gold fading to aquamarine. 1981 J. Cooper Love & other Heartaches 188 Kate felt she would like to have taken Georgie's laburnum yellow locks..and wound them round her throat and strangled her. < as lemmas |
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