单词 | pieced-together |
释义 | > as lemmaspieced-together With adverbs, as pieced-together, pieced-up. Cf. piece v. Phrasal verbs. ΚΠ 1656 A. Cowley Davideis i. 10 in Poems The infected King..started back at piec'ed-up shapes, which feare And his distracted Fancy painted there. 1769 D. Dalrymple Exam. Arguments for High Antiq. Regiam Majestatem iii. 51 They are all..transcripts or pieced-up shreds from various laws. 1854 N.-Y. Daily Times 9 May 5/5 This is no pieced-up or manufactured article. 1872 Scribner's Monthly Sept. 638/2 A pieced-up and turned garment. 1901 Daily Chron. 16 Oct. 3/3 A mere pieced-together book. 1935 Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men i. ii. 45 Yeah, he built it on a rock, but it wasn't solid. It was a pieced-up rock. 2003 Financial Mail (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 28 Mar. 32 This is going to be a really pieced-up job. < as lemmas |
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