| 单词 | open-kneed |
| 释义 | > as lemmasopen-kneed open-kneed adj. (a) (of breeches) that are loose at the knees; (b) (of a person) with knees wide apart. ΚΠ 1691 W. Mountfort Greenwich-Park i. i. 2 They wore slash Doublets, short Cloaks, and open-knee'd Breeches. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 57 My Breeches..were only Linnen and open knee'd. 1835 C. J. Latrobe Rambler in N. Amer. II. xii. 222 They land upon the wharfs of New York in rags and open-knee'd breeches. 1978 Colby Libr. Q. Sept. 126 A great many figures in Blake's work of a Urizenic nature or suffering from Urizen's restrictions sit thus open-kneed, with or without an open book. 2013 C. Loomis in D. Barrett-Graves Emblematic Queen iii. 65 Classical and pagan historical figures are also depicted in an open-kneed posture and are often nude, but their genitals are generally draped. < as lemmas |
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