单词 | mere pounamu |
释义 | > as lemmasmere pounamu mere pounamu n. [ < Maori mere pounamu < mere mere n.6 + pounamu pounamu n.] now historical a mere of the finest kind. ΚΠ 1835 W. Yate Acct. N.Z. (ed. 2) v. 271 I have put on board the Buffalo a mere pounamu and two garments. 1899 R. R. Parris in Richmond-Atkinson Papers (1960) II. 618 Two elderly natives..brought to my house a very handsome mere pounamu (greenstone club). 1996 N. Te Awekotuku in D. C. Starzecka Maori Art & Culture ii. 38 The most prestigious [short clubs] were mere pounamu of nephrite.., whose spatulate shape was also worked in whalebone as patu parāoa , and stone as patu ōnewa. < as lemmas |
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