单词 | nombril |
释义 | nombriln. 1. Heraldry. More fully nombril point: the point on an escutcheon which lies midway between the true centre (or fess point) and the base point. Cf. navel point n. at navel n. Compounds 2. Now chiefly literary and historical. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > escutcheon or shield > [noun] > one of nine fixed positions > other points fesse-point1562 nombril1562 honour point1572 umbilic point1586 navel point1725 abyss1753 1562 G. Legh Accedens of Armory (1597) 25 The letter H. is termed the Fesse point. The letter I. is called the Nombril. 1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie i. vii. 30 The Nombrill is next vnderneath the Fesse Point, answering in a like distance from the Fesse Point. 1661 S. Morgan Sphere of Gentry iii. vi. 57 All meeting or centring about a round plate of the same in the Nombril of the Shield. 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II. (at cited word) The first of those [parts] is the Nombril, and the lowest the Base. 1797 Encycl. Brit. VIII. 441/2 E the fess point. F the nombril point. ?1828 W. Berry Encycl. Heraldica I. sig. Eee4/1 Nombril, or Navel Point, is the next below the fesse-point. 1866 J. E. Cussans Gram. Heraldry 7 In English heraldry, mention is seldom made of the Honor and Nombril points. 1923 C. M. Doughty Mansoul (rev. ed.) iv. 132 Is thatched that House, With shining plate, bucklers of God-like warriors; The nombrils of pured gold. 1955 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ Compl. Poems (1994) II. 740 Equally ready when it comes to the pasterns of a horse, The tilts of a camel-litter, The nombril of a shield. a1970 C. Olson Maximus Poems (1983) 93 Not that any of us would use such language: the Tree of Battles: or palette fess nombril base. 1986 B. B. Broughton Dict. Medieval Knighthood at Points of the shield Areas of a shield named to help with the blazon: honor, fess, nombril. 2. figurative and poetic. The centre point of something. Also: the navel. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > belly or abdomen > [noun] > navel naveleOE navel-stead1581 nombril1604 navea1616 navel-hole1671 umbilicus1799 omphalodium1892 belly-button1934 tummy-button1945 1604 T. Winter Third Dayes Creation 14 Sith then the earthie and the watrie Round Is center, heart, and nombrill of the mound. a1962 E. E. Cummings Compl. Poems (1994) xxxii. 260 I was wifeless and only half awake, cursed with pimples, correctly dressed, cleanshaven above the nombril. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1562 |
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