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单词 black-a-top
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black-a-topadj.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: black adj., a prep.1, top n.1
Etymology: < black adj. + a prep.1 + top n.1It is unclear whether the following quot. shows an earlier attestation of the word as noun (if so, apparently in the sense ‘black-headed woman or girl’):1677 T. D'Urfey Fond Husband v. 48 Ifack that black a top there fires me strangely.
Obsolete. rare.
Black-headed.
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the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > darkness > [adjective]
blackeOE
browned-black?c1510
dark?1537
black-faced1581
adust?1586
black-visaged1602
mulatto1622
kettle-faced1680
black-favoured1681
black-a-top1685
brown-complexioned1704
blackavised1721
brunette1724
brune1747
dark-skinned1750
black-looking1753
melanic1826
melanous1836
brunet1840
copper-skinned1873
brown-skinned1904
brown-
1685 tr. Ovid Elegy in J. Dryden Sylvæ 443 With yellow curles Aurora pleas'd her fop, And Leda (Iove well saw) was black a–top [L. Leda fuit nigra conspicienda coma].
1725 N. Bailey tr. Erasmus All Familiar Colloquies 18 Can you fancy that Black-a-Top, Snub-nos'd,..Paunch-bell'd Creature.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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