| 单词 | pacolet's horse |
| 释义 | > as lemmasPacolet's horse In allusive and similative use. A mythical horse able to transport a person swiftly to wherever he or she wishes. More fully Pacolet's horse. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > for riding > swift steed blonkOE steedc1175 a stern steedc1300 prancer?1566 Pacoleta1586 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. K1v I may speake..of Peru, and in speech, digresse from that, to the discription of Calicut: but in action, I cannot represent it without Pacolets horse. 1615 T. Overbury et al. New & Choise Characters with Wife (6th impr.) sig. M6v The itch of bestriding the Presse, or getting vp on this wodden Pacolet. 1694 L. Echard tr. Plautus Amphitryon iv. v, in tr. Plautus Comedies 53 If I had got Pacolet's Horse, I cou'dn't ha' came sooner. 1728 A. Ramsay Monk & Miller's Wife 230 I'll gar my Pacolet appear. a1820 J. R. Drake To Friend in Wks. (1935) 198 Spur thy good Pacolet to speed apace. < as lemmas |
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