单词 | rapiered |
释义 | rapieredadj. Wearing or equipped with a rapier. Also: (figurative) incisive. ΚΠ 1683 in Roxburghe Ballads (1885) V. 454 A nimble thrust of Rapier'd Wit. 1840 Times 14 Sept. 3/3 Corruption had begun to enervate the higher ranks, to degrade..knights into rapiered fops. 1854 J. R. Lowell Cambr. 30 Years Ago in Prose Wks. (1890) I. 94 The scarlet-coated, rapiered figures. 1896 Indiana (Pa.) Democrat 30 Apr. There came by..two plumed and rapiered cavaliers. 1908 M. J. Cawein Poems IV. 208 Knights in gold and vair, with a rapiered throng of courtiers. 1940 Fitchburg (Mass.) Sentinel 7 Dec. 5/8 A procession of ruffed and rapiered ‘lords’and their ‘ladyes faire’..singing old songs of ‘Merrie England’. 2000 J. P. Bednarz Shakespeare & Poets' War ix. 249 An audience of rapiered gallants. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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