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单词 of one ear
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of one ear
i. of one ear: (of wine; also occasionally of ale) of good quality. Obsolete. [After French à une oreille (1542 in Middle French in the passage translated in quot. 1653), perhaps with reference to an appreciative tilting of the head to one side.]
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1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. v. 29 The fine white wine..is of one eare [Fr. à une aureille], well wrought, and of good wooll.
1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 5th Bk. Wks. xliv. 205 Take care to hearken and hear the Word only with one Ear. This, cry'd Friar Ihon, is Wine of one Ear [Fr. vin à vne oreille], as Frenchmen call it.
1766 T. Amory Life John Buncle II. viii. 260 I dined at Caterric on a hot pigeon-pye just drawn, and ale of one ear, that is, admirable.
1824 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 2nd Ser. (ed. 2) I. 451 Vino di un oreja, ‘Wine of one ear!’ is good wine; for at bad, shaking our heads, both our ears are visible; but at good, the Spaniard, by a natural gesticulation lowering one side, shows a single ear.
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