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单词 proud-pied
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proud-pied
proud-pied adj. proudly or splendidly variegated.In later use only with allusion to Shakespeare's characterization of April (see quot. 1609).
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1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets xcviii. sig. G When proud pide Aprill (drest in all his trim) Hath put a spirit of youth in euery thing.
1893 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 536/1 I find the spring, even proud pied April, is not averse to long memories and backward glimpses into the quiet years.
1912 C. Mackenzie Carnival xlii. 373 When April pauses to survey her handiwork, assuming in the contemplation of the proud pied earth the warmth and maturity of midsummer.
2003 Times (Nexis) 1 Mar. 3 In our own days, Ted Hughes's Season Songs contain some of the most tangible and joyous evocations of spring... Proud-pied, is she?
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