单词 | rose-cheeked |
释义 | rose-cheekedadj. Having ruddy or rose-coloured cheeks; rosy-cheeked. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > redness > [adjective] redOE ruddya1300 red-faced1579 cherry-cheeked1586 rose-cheeked1593 red-cheeked1602 murrey1623 florid1650 sanguine1684 sanguine-complexioned1692 apple-faced1781 apple-cheeked1827 pippin-faced1836 lobsterish1914 1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. B Rose-cheekt Adonis hied him to the chace. a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iv. iii. 87 Bring downe Rose-cheekt youth to the Tubfast [amended by Warburton], and the Diet. View more context for this quotation 1646 H. More Democritus Platonissans 25 Fair comely bodies goodly beautifi'd Snow-limb'd, rose-cheek'd. 1718 T. Purney Chevalier de St. George i. 6 Rose-Cheek'd Aurora, clad in lucid Beams. 1798 R. Anderson Poems on Var. Subj. 9 Sweet is thy draught to Mis'ry's sons, who live Unpitied by unfeeling Wealth; For thou content dost give, And rose-cheek'd Health. 1832 Ld. Tennyson Miller's Daughter xvii, in Poems (new ed.) 41 Rosecheekt, roselipt, half-sly, half-shy, You would, and would not, little one. 1880 M. A. Fleming Carried by Storm ii. 17 Frank lifts the little white-robed, golden-haired, rose-cheeked vision up higher than his head. 1927 Times 9 Dec. 15/4 The rose-cheeked and flaxen-curled favourite of the cotside. 1982 N.Y. Mag. 26 Apr. 56/2 A portrait of some member of the French nobility, rose-cheeked and dewy-eyed. 2003 Vogue Aug. 320 (caption) The best tweeds were woven at home and ‘waulked’ (that is, softened) by the caresses of rose-cheeked Scottish maids. CompoundsΚΠ 1829 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom VII. 413 (note) Other species have been mentioned, as..the Guriac.., Ferrugineous, Rose-cheeked, Blue-crested, and the Trinidad Kingfishers. 1872 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872 666 The skull..I should as lief compare to that of the Rose-cheeked Kingfisher (Ispidina picta). 1889 Antananarivo Ann. 4 91 The other Madagascar species of this Family, the Rose-cheeked Kingfisher, is a little bird in a livery of bright yellowish-red. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1593 |
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