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单词 longbeard
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longbeardn.

Brit. /ˈlɒŋbɪəd/, U.S. /ˈlɔŋˌbɪ(ə)rd/, /ˈlɑŋˌbɪ(ə)rd/
Forms: see long adj.1 and n.1 and beard n.; also (in sense 1a) Old English longbard, Middle English longebardes (plural).
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: long adj.1, beard n.
Etymology: < long adj.1 + beard n.In Old English (in sense 1a) usually as Langbearde (masculine plural) with the inflectional ending of the i -stem declension usual for ethnonyms; an a -stem plural Langbeardas and a weak plural Langbeardan are also attested. With the forms longbard, longebardes perhaps compare forms of Longobard n. and adj. With sense 1a compare Langobard n., Lombard n.1 In sense 2 with reference to the appearance of the plant. In sense 3 with allusion to the long beard worn by Cardinal Robert Bellarmine (see bellarmine n.).
1. Frequently with capital initial. Used to denote a person.
a. Medieval History. A Lombard.In post-medieval use, frequently as an etymologizing calque of Lombard, Langobard, etc.
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the world > people > ethnicities > Germanic people > ancient Germanic peoples > [noun] > Lombards > person
longbeardOE
LongobardlOE
Lombard1480
Longobardian1588
Langobard1788
OE Widsith 80 Mid Lidwicingum ic wæs ond mid Leonum ond mid Longbeardum, mid hæðnum ond mid hæleþum.
OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.i) anno 888 Hroðulf þa feng to ðam middelrice.., & Beorngar & Wiða to Langbeardna[lOE Laud Langbeardna, Domitian A.viii Longabarda] lande.
OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) i. iv. 42 Se ylca me sæde, þæt Langbearde foron hergiende in Ualeriam þa mægðe.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 263 (MED) Þe Wandales somtyme wan Affrica, and þe Longebardes Italy, and þe Normans Gallia.
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. ccccviijv/1 Albuyne..commaunded that alle the wymmen shold vnbynde theyr heer, & bynde it vnder their chynnes in suche wyse, that they shold seme men, And therfore were they called longebardes, and so after lombardes [L. et inde Longobardi a longis barbis postmodum sunt vocati; Fr. et pour ce furent ilz ditz lombars a propos a de longues barbes].
1647 C. Cotterell & W. Aylesbury tr. E. C. Davila Hist. Civill Warres France i. 4 Famous incursions of..the Longbeards.
1771 Town & Country Mag. Mar. 118/1 After them [sc. the Huns and the Goths] came the Lombards, or Longbeards.
1859 Standard 3 Jan. 4 Words..had from the Franks, Longbeards, and Goths.
1889 R. B. Anderson tr. V. Rydberg Teutonic Mythol. 67 From that day the Vinnillians were called Longobardians—that is to say long-beards.
1920 Scribner's Mag. May 630/1 The Longbeards came into Lombardy, and the Huns into Hungary.
2002 L. M. Bitel Women in Early Medieval Europe ii. 52 The invading Lombards, whose name translates to ‘longbeards.’
b. colloquial (humorous). A man with a long beard. Frequently with the implication of old age, wisdom, eccentricity, or distinguished character.
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the world > life > the body > hair > hair on lower part of face > [noun] > beard > types of > person having
greybeard1207
whitebeard1450
redbeard1607
whey-beard1614
longbeard1665
1665 M. Nedham Medela Medicinæ ix. 306 As childish a Conceit as ever was owned by any Long Beards called the Children of men.
?1670 (c1645) J. Cavendish & E. Brackley Concealed Fansyes iii, in PMLA (1931) 46 819 I knowe, contynually seeinge old longe Beards make leggs to mee, will teach hir the fashion to obey.
1786 S. Henley tr. W. Beckford Arabian Tale 175 Loud indeed must have been the sound of the tymbals, to overpower the blubbering of the Emir, and his Long-beards [Fr. barbons].
1831 Olio 8 Jan. 6/2 Wise men were those longbeards—better wear a beard reaching to your waist, than be flayed alive in a winter's morning.
1938 A. C. Eurich & E. C. Wilson In 1937 260 The wranglings of the diplomatic longbeards..often made bigger world headlines.
1986 Times 18 Feb. 20/1 The original proposal, longbeards may recall, was for Newco to be capitalized, [etc.].
2009 M. Obmascik Halfway to Heaven viii. 100 There are still longbeards drinking alone at the bar, but now there's a new crowd too.
2. Spanish moss, Tillandsia usneoides (family Bromeliaceae), an epiphytic plant of tropical and subtropical America. Also called long-moss, Spanish beard. Obsolete.
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the world > plants > particular plants > moss > [noun] > Spanish moss
long moss1697
black moss1709
old man's beard1756
Tillandsia1759
Spanish beard1763
Spanish moss1823
longbeard1832
death moss1838
tree-beard1861
Spaniard's beard1880
Florida moss1888
1832 Curtis's Bot. Mag. 59 Pl. 3158, 3159 A mass of the Spanish Long-beard (Tillandsia usneoides).
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Long-beard, a name for a kind of moss or epiphyte brought down the Mississippi.
1912 Twentieth Cent. Encycl. 434/3 Species of Tillandsia, one of which is the New Orleans Moss, Long Beard, or Old Man's Beard.
3. = bellarmine n. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > large
beaker1348
facer1527
wassailing bowl1555
wassail-cup1600
wassail-bowl1606
consciencea1643
bellarmine1720
breakfast-cup1762
longbeard1850
1850 Jrnl. Brit. Archæol. Assoc. 5 35 The Bellarmine, or long-beard, here represented, was a description of jug of stone ware.
1878 L. Jewitt Ceramic Art I. 92 The Bellarmine, or Grey Beard, or Long Beard, as it was commonly called.
1884 Western Mail (Cardiff) 18 Apr. 3/6 A good specimen of the kind of stone jug known as a Bellarmine, grey beard or long beard, which was used in the reign of James I.
4. U.S. The mature adult male of a wild turkey, typically one over two years old, which has a long beard-like tuft of feathers below the base of its neck.
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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > [noun] > member of Meleagrididae (turkey) > male
cock of India1546
brissel-cockc1565
guinea-cock1577
turkey-cock1578
gobbler1725
bubbly jock1785
staga1825
Tom1840
longbeard1974
1974 Field & Stream Mar. 78/3 His mission is to convince Old Longbeard the caller is the hen of his dreams, and lure him into range without.
1988 Altoona (Pa.) Mirror 6 Nov. d9/2 The hunter who is going to concentrate his efforts on longbeards only must be able to distinguish the mature gobbler sign from that of lesser gobblers.
2007 Hoosier Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 18 Feb. (Herald-Times ed.) f7/4 Seven long-beards were scratching around in the cow pasture. Turkey season will be here soon.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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