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单词 plumeopicean robe
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plumeopicean robe
Made of tar and feathers. Only in plumeopicean robe with allusion to the practice of tarring and feathering criminals, etc. (see to tar and feather at tar v.1 b).
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plumeopicean robe1843
1843 S. Smith Let. on Amer. Debts ii, in Wks. (1859) II. 331/2 I will appear on my knees at the bar of the Pennsylvanian Senate in the plumeopicean robe of American controversy.
1845 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Apr. 415/2 How many invitations might he have received..to..appear at the bar of the Senate in the plumiopicean robe!
1861 Sat. Rev. 7 Dec. 573 Those whom it proposed to teach would destroy the types, and invest the compositors with the plumeopicean robe of the republican Nemesis.
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