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单词 queen mary's cushion
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Queen Mary's cushion
b. A swelling simulating pregnancy: sometimes called Queen Mary's cushion, after Mary Tudor. (Perhaps sometimes an actual cushion or pad.) Obsolete.
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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.
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