英语词汇“pigeon-fancy”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

13. The art or practice of breeding animals so as to develop points of conventional beauty or excellence; also one of these points. Sometimes with qualifying word prefixed, as pigeon-fancy.

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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > [noun] > breeding for desired quality > for points of beauty

fancy1862

fancying1876

1889 Sat. Rev. 22 June 772/2 The peculiar fancy affecting him [the carrier] is to have wattles and excrescences round his eyes and beak.

1889 Standard 23 Oct. The layman uninitiated in the mysteries of ‘fancy’.

attrib.1862 T. H. Huxley Lect. Working Men 105 Birds which fly long distances..and are..used as carriers are not carriers in the fancy sense.1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 249/2 The less important art of fancy breeding.1889 Sat. Rev. 22 June 772/2 A pouter graces the frontispiece, using the word ‘grace’ in the Fancy sense.

单词	pigeon-fancy
释义	> as lemmas pigeon-fancy 13. The art or practice of breeding animals so as to develop points of conventional beauty or excellence; also one of these points. Sometimes with qualifying word prefixed, as pigeon-fancy. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > [noun] > breeding for desired quality > for points of beauty fancy1862 fancying1876 1889 Sat. Rev. 22 June 772/2 The peculiar fancy affecting him [the carrier] is to have wattles and excrescences round his eyes and beak. 1889 Standard 23 Oct. The layman uninitiated in the mysteries of ‘fancy’. attrib.1862 T. H. Huxley Lect. Working Men 105 Birds which fly long distances..and are..used as carriers are not carriers in the fancy sense.1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 249/2 The less important art of fancy breeding.1889 Sat. Rev. 22 June 772/2 A pouter graces the frontispiece, using the word ‘grace’ in the Fancy sense. extracted from fancyn.adj. < as lemmas
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