单词 | black-a-top |
释义 | † black-a-topadj. Obsolete. rare. Black-headed. ΘΚΠ 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). < adj.1685 |
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