单词 | mourning border |
释义 | > as lemmasmourning border mourning border n. a black border on notepaper, envelopes, etc., used in periods of mourning, esp. in notifications of deaths, funerals, etc. ΚΠ 1862 W. Collins No Name I. 249 Paper with the deepest mourning border round it. 1868 ‘F. Fern’ Folly as it Flies 153 With tender compassion for the bereaved,—for in many a home that bright flag will always wear its mourning-border. 1986 New Yorker 7 July 52/1 My memory of him stops with the..piteous little ‘racial’ realization framing the whole like a black mourning border. < as lemmas |
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