| 单词 | bauble boat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbauble boat C1. As a modifier, designating something small, trifling, or insignificant. Esp. (and earliest) in bauble boat: a small or flimsy boat (cf. sense 3c, baubling adj. 1). Now rare. ΚΠ 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. iii. 34 How many shallow bauble boates dare saile, Vpon her ancient brest. 1730 C. Coffey Female Parson ii. iii. 25 Have I thus long spent my Hopes in vain, put of from time to time with trifling Scruples of that Bauble Virtue, the foolish Niceness of your artful Sex? 1798 W. Cowper Poems: On Receipt Mother's Picture 5 Delighted with my bauble coach. 1816 T. Ashe Soldier of Fortune I. xxv. 237 Many bauble boats have courage to set their sails on a smooth ocean. 1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country i. 47 Yonder bauble world Of silvered glass. 1932 G. L. Bickersteth tr. Dante Paradiso iii. xxiii. 205 No sea-way for a bauble-boat [It. picciola barca] is this cut by my daring keel. < as lemmas |
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