单词 | ostrich plume |
释义 | ostrich plumen. 1. An ostrich feather, or a bunch of two or three feathers. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [noun] > plumes or feathers ostrich feathera1400 peacock feather?a1425 plume1530 plumet1585 ostrich plume1613 plumery1795 white1867 ostrich tip1880 1436 in J. Stuart & G. Burnett Exchequer Rolls Scotl. (1880) IV. 679 In ornamento plumarum de hostriche.] 1613 R. Niccols Three Sisters Teares sig. Fv So stood my Estrich plumes on Henries crowne. a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V cxcvii, in Poems (1878) 150 Everie Bow..May weare a Scarfe, each Shaft, an Estrich Plume. 1792 R. Bage Man as he Is I. ix. 76 He who would rob poor girls of their ostrich plumes and bracelets, unless they could afford to pay for them. c1820 S. Rogers Brides of Venice in Italy 29 A fan, that gently waved, of ostrich-plumes. 1859 J. H. Ingraham Pillar of Fire i. xix. 321 White horses..richly caparisoned, and with ostrich-plumes nodding on their heads. 1899 R. Whiteing No. 5 John St. x. 101 A Feather Club is an institution for supplying our younger womankind with..ostrich plumes for their hats. 1957 R. Campbell Coll. Poems II. 98 Musk-scented lace and fans of ostrich plume. 1977 R. Player Month of Mangled Models ix. 152 Leighton..still enjoyed seeing the tiaras, the ostrich plume fans and the jewelled corsages. 1993 N.Y. Times Mag. 24 Oct. 121/2 Town & Country's debutante issue featured one Miss Alexandra Chace on its cover in the scruffy company of the Rolling Stones. She wore ostrich plumes. 2. The hydroid Aglaophenia struthionides (suborder Leptomedusae), of the North American Pacific coast, which resembles an ostrich feather in appearance. More fully ostrich-plume hydroid. ΚΠ 1889 Cent. Dict. at Aglaophenia A. struthionides is an elegant species of the Pacific coast of North America, known, from its figure and general appearance, as the ostrich-plume. 1935 Ecol. Monogr. 5 286 Aglaophenia struthionides (Murray), ostrich plume hydroid. 1999 Calif. Diving News (Electronic ed.) 16 The ostrich plume hydroid..likes to be where the action is—along rocky coastlines where it is constantly waved at. 3. Any of several varieties of plants with feathery flowers or foliage, esp. a variety of China aster ( Callistephus chinensis) with curled petals. Chiefly attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [adjective] > of chrysanthemums ostrich plume1891 1891 Daily News 19 Oct. 3/5 A curious variety of chrysanthemum... American growers have described it as the ostrich plume variety. 1930 L. H. Bailey & E. Z. Bailey Hortus 405/1 The commonest vegetable-garden species is Brassica juncea, particularly var. crispifolia in the kinds known as Ostrich Plume and Southern Curled. 1989 C. Brickell Gardeners' Encycl. Plants & Flowers 426/1 Callistephus... Ostrich Plume Series (tall) bears feathery, reflexed, fully double flower heads. Derivatives ˈostrich-plumed adj. adorned with ostrich plumes. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [adjective] > ornamented with plumes or feathers peacock-feathered1429 plumeda1529 well-plumed1575 beplumed1582 plumy-crested1598 emplumed1622 feathered1624 plumy1631 befeathered1635 ostrich-plumed1883 1883 A. Domett Ranolf & Amohia (rev. ed.) I. i. iii. 47 The powdered Prophet ostrich-plumed. 2002 C. M. Knox tr. E. van Heerden Long Silence of Mario Salviati i. v. 22 The women and girls also waited for the train, chattering away in ostrich-plumed hats. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1613 |
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