| 单词 | rye-straw thatch |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrye-straw thatch attributive. In the sense ‘made of rye straw’, as rye-straw hat, rye-straw thatch, etc. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iv. i. 136 You Sun-burn'd Sicklemen.., Make holly day: your Rye-straw hats put on. View more context for this quotation 1802 G. Greene Rel. Several Circumstances which occurred in Province of Lower Normandy 263 They bind them together with a rye straw band. 1846 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. Dec. 418 No. 976, a rye straw bonnet, by Jane M. Atwood, of Salem, Washington county, New York. 1909 ‘O. Henry’ Options 163 One night he took twelve of us and..sneaked through a mile of neglected shrubbery and a couple of rock-quarries and into a rye-straw village. 1997 B. Cornwell Excalibur 21 The hilltop hall was made of oak and roofed with rye-straw thatch. < as lemmas |
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