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单词 pearl bead
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pearl bead
(a) ‘Made or consisting of pearl or pearls, adorned with a pearl or pearls’, as pearl bead, pearl earring, pearl sword, etc.
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1541 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1907) VII. 423 Perle bedis.
c1610 Lady Compton in Antiq. Rep. (1808) III. 438 I would have..6000l. for a Pearl Chain... I am so reasonable.
1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. xx. 205 Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl-chain of all virtues.
1732 J. Powis Compleat & Genuine Acct. Life & Actions Joseph Powis 40 A pair of Ear-Rings, being three Pearl Studs, and a Drop like a Pear, set in Gold.
a1788 Will of Duchess Kingston in Authentic Detail Particulars Relative to Late Duchess Kingston (1788) 152 I direct and request the said Sir George Shuckburgh..to offer and lay at the feet of her Imperial Majesty my pair of pearl earrings.
1800 L. Anquetil Summary Universal Hist. V. 403 Taking off his pearl collar, he put it on the rajah's neck.
a1821 J. Keats Mod. Love in R. M. Milnes Life, Lett. & Literary Remains Keats (1848) I. 283 Miss's comb is made a pearl tiara.
1873 A. Trollope Eustace Diamonds I. xxv. 332 She was allowed a diamond and a pearl chain to that value.
1896 Westm. Gaz. 4 Jan. 3/2 The City of London..contributing..the famous pearl-sword with its splendid scabbard which Queen Elizabeth presented to the Corporation.
1911 ‘M. Field’ Accuser i. ii. 179 He slowly decks Zarah with pearl-ropes and with earrings.
1944 Speculum 19 197 The Virgin is portrayed with a pearl wreath on her head.
1991 Poetics Today 12 474 Another lady had had her pearl-string torn and restrung, minus one pearl, in the same secluded village.
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