| 单词 | postage stamp collecting |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspostage stamp collecting C1. In sense A. 1 (esp. with reference to philately), as postage stamp album, postage stamp collecting, postage stamp size, postage stamp system, etc.; postage-stamp-sized adj. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [adjective] > of small or scanty extent narroweOE straitc1290 scarce1297 scanta1533 pinched?1567 strict1598 thrifty1601 straitened1602 scanty1701 scrimped?c1716 pookit1818 poky1828 postage-stamp-sized1852 poking1864 boxy1870 pocket handkerchief1910 postage stamp1937 1852 Rep. Sel. Comm. Postage Label Stamps 2 The efficient working of the postage-stamp system. 1870 Nature 28 July 249/1 We would supply for the mind a rational substitute for such manias as that of postage-stamp collecting. 1886 R. Senf (title) The illustrated postage stamp album. 1909 Manch. Junior Philatelic Soc. (title) Manchester Postage Stamp Exhibition and Philatelic Congress. 1949 R. C. Alcock & C. W. Meredith (title) British postage stamp varieties illustrated. 1956 (title) Postage stamp catalogue of the Republic of China, 1878–1957. 1968 ‘R. Raine’ Night of Hawk viii. 38 A postage-stamp-sized moustache. 1991 Buying Cameras Mar. 7 The machine can also sepia tone a print, reduce it to postage stamp size, [etc.]. 1993 Dict. National Biogr.: Missing Persons 248/2 Gibbons, (Edward) Stanley (1840–1913), postage-stamp dealer, was born..in Plymouth. < as lemmas |
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