单词 | porphyry-born |
释义 | > as lemmasporphyry-born porphyry-born adj. of royal birth; also figurative (cf. purple n. 1d). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > royalty > [adjective] > royally born kinelyeOE kine-bornOE purpurate1669 king-born1670 born to (also in) (the) purple1681 porphyrogenea1849 throne-born1855 porphyry-borna1940 a1940 J. Wheelwright Coll. Poems (1971) 256 Porphyry-born Waters (which are Ice and Steam, From which your Body and your Mind are made). 1964 W. H. Auden in Listener 1 Oct. 525/1 Neither of our Dads, like Horace's, Wiped his nose on his forearm, Neither was porphyry-born. < as lemmas |
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