| 单词 | light as leaf on lind |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(as) light as leaf on lind (also linden, tree, etc.) c. (as) light as leaf on lind (also linden, tree, etc.)and variants: as light or weightless as a leaf; (hence) cheerful, merry; (also, in negative sense) heedless, unthinking. Now archaic and rare.Quot. 1954 is anticipated in the title of an earlier version of the same poem: 1925 J. R. R. Tolkien in Gryphon (Univ. Leeds) June 217 (title of poem) Light as leaf on lindentree. ΚΠ a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 44 In May hit murgeþ when hit dawes,..ant lef is lyght on lynde.] c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. i. l. 154 (MED) Whan it [sc. love] haued of þis folde flesshe & blode taken, Was neuere leef vpon lynde liȝter þer-after. c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Clerk's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) Envoy l. 35 Be ay of cheere as light as leef on lynde. a1450 Castle Perseverance (1969) l. 3595 (MED) Lo here Mankynde, lyter þanne lef is on lynde! a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxvi. 355 I am as light as leyfe on tre For ioyfull sight that I can se. c1505 Adambel Clym of Cloughe & Wyllyam of Cloudesle (de Worde) (verso third leaf) Thus be these good yemen gone to the wode As lyght as lefe on lynde. 1954 J. R. R. Tolkien Fellowship of Ring i. vi. 354 Fair she was and free; And in the wind she went as light As leaf of linden-tree. < as lemmas |
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