单词 | prison-born |
释义 | > as lemmasprison-born prison-born adj. ΚΠ 1660 T. Fuller Mixt Contempl. i. vii. 12 I lack..many things more, which thou being Prison-born, neither art nor can be sensible of. 1846 A. McLachlan Spirit of Love 14 The captive bird, tho' prison born, Methinks has sadness in its song. 1952 F. E. Halliday Shakespeare Compan. 467 She [sc. the wife of Antigonus]..brings him the prison-born Perdita. 2001 Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis) 12 Aug. a4 The New York state women's prison in Bedford Hills was the first in the nation, in the early 1900s, to allow female convicts to live with their prison-born children. < as lemmas |
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