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单词 scarf-skin
释义

scarf-skinn.

Etymology: scarf n.1, in the sense of light outer covering.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈscarf-skin.
a. The outer layer of the skin; the epidermis, cuticle.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > skin > layer of skin > [noun] > specific layers
epiderma1582
outskin1583
cutis1605
cuticle1615
scarf-skin1615
cuticula1621
epidermis1626
flesh side1630
derma1706
scarfy skin1744
rete mucosum1754
hypoderma1826
chorion1828
dermis1830
corium1835
derm1835
epiderm1835
flesh1839
rete1842
grain1851
hypoderm1855
stratum corneum1857
grain-side1858
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 61 The Scarfe-skin or Cuticle being voide of sense itselfe.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 235 The blackness lay in the epidermis, or scarf-skin, which was burnt up like leather.
1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 85 Not a hair Ruffled upon the scarfskin.
1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 383/2 The first operation to which they [sc. hides] are subjected is depilation, which removes, not only the hair, but also the scarf-skin.
b. transferred.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > [noun] > a coat or covering layer > top or superficial
facing1586
scarf-skin1669
heading1779
header1868
fronting1886
1669 Addr. Hopeful Young Gentry 53 Raise up but the skarfe skin which covers this fine mould.
1797 New Ann. Reg. 1796 Misc. Papers 144/2 By making four or five small longitudinal incisions with a sharp-pointed knife..on one side only of the head or pod, just through the scarf-skin.
1847 H. Miller First Impressions Eng. xi. 194 Let us..strip the vast landscape here of its upper integuments,..beginning first with the vegetable mould,—the scarf-skin of the country.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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