| 单词 | royal stag |
| 释义 | > as lemmasroyal stag royal stag n. (originally perhaps) a noble stag or one thought fit to be hunted by royalty; (in later use) spec. one with a head of ten or more points (see sense B. 3c). ΚΠ 1642 J. Denham Cooper's Hill 14 Here have I seene our Charles, when great affaires. Give leave to slacken, and unbend his cares, Chacing the royall Stagge; the gallant beast. 1735 W. Somervile Chace iii. 407 The Royal Stag..tosses high his beamy Head. 1858 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 483/1 At the crack of your rifle, he leaps into the air, and then falls mighty in the wilderness—a Royal Stag of Ten! 1908 Badminton Mag. Jan. 75 I was lucky enough in this my holiday of 1907 to kill a 27-stone ‘royal’ stag on our island, a lordly beast with a heavy 11-point head. 1988 R. Putman Nat. Hist. Deer viii. 157 In Scotland, a stag with ten points to his antlers becomes a ‘royal’ stag—originally ‘fit to be taken by royalty’—one with 12 points an ‘imperial’, and so on. < as lemmas |
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