单词 | legacy hunting |
释义 | > as lemmaslegacy hunting legacy hunting n. the activity of a legacy hunter. ΚΠ 1737 G. Ogle (title) Of legacy-hunting. The fifth satire of the second book of Horace imitated. 1794 C. Smith Wanderings of Warwick 105 To stoop to the pitiful expedient of legacy-hunting. 1890 Gentleman's Mag. May 526 Legacy-hunting by this time in the empire had become a positive profession. 2009 J. M. Carlon Pliny's Women iii. 126 The Roman fixation on wills led to fear of their falsification or manipulation and to the practice of legacy hunting. < as lemmas |
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