| 单词 | queen mary's cushion |
| 释义 | > as lemmasQueen Mary's cushion ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of pregnancy or birth > [noun] > false conception or pregnancy molaa1398 mole?c1425 maw mother?c1475 mooncalf1565 whetstone1580 cushion1600 false conception1601 pseudocyesis1859 pseudopregnancy1860 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 v. iv. 14 But I pray God the fruite of her wombe miscarry. Sincklo. If it doe, you shall haue a dozzen of cushions againe, you haue but eleuen nowe. View more context for this quotation 1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης iii. 24 And thus his pregnant motives are at last prov'd nothing but a Tympany, or a Queen Maries Cushion. 1689 Let. fr. the Pope in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) I. 370 That a King..should praise (or rather mock) God for a child, whilst his Queen had only conceived a pillow, and was brought to bed of a cushion..This was the old contrivance of another Mary-Queen. 1694 S. Johnson Notes Pastoral Let. 37 His Wife went fourty Weeks with a Cushion. < as lemmas |
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