| 单词 | serpentine pillar |
| 释义 | > as lemmasserpentine pillar a. Consisting of, containing, or made of serpentine (sense 3), as serpentine knife, serpentine porphyry, serpentine pillar, serpentine rock, serpentine tankard, serpentine-wacke. ΚΠ 1463 J. Baret in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 35 My serpentyn knyves. 1582 J. Hester tr. L. Fioravanti Compend. Rationall Secretes i. lxv. 78 A rounde Corrall like vnto the Serpentine Purphire. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xvii. 16 (note) The serpentine pillar of the Hippodrome. 1799 W. Tooke View Russ. Empire I. 120 The principal mountains of these parts [sc. Lapland], consist of granite..and probably likewise of porphyry and serpentine-wake. 1838 W. F. Ainsworth Researches in Assyria 336 Serpentine rocks. 1875 J. W. Dawson Life's Dawn on Earth vi. 144 Serpentine-limestone or ophicalcite. < as lemmas |
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