单词 | black-capped |
释义 | black-cappedadj. 1. Wearing a black cap.figurative in earliest use. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing headgear > wearing a cap > types of cauled1393 coifed1520 biggined1607 night-capped1607 blue-bonneted1648 black-capped1658 red-capped1663 thrum-capped1708 white-capped1751 fool's-capped1849 calpacked1852 mob-capped1854 pileated1856 bearskinned1857 fezzed1864 tam-o'-shantered1894 cloth-capped1935 1658 T. Flatman Naps upon Parnassus sig. F4 Were they by some Chymist Hat-maker extracted, those reaking fumes..would very handsomely beaver their Blocks, and fit them as neatly, as e're the ancient Black-capt Cloud did the Divine Temple. 1756 J. Hanway Jrnl. Eight Days Journey i. iv. 12 Rowed in pomp, by ten white-shirted, black-capp'd, joyful mariners. 1772 Gen. Evening Post 1 Aug. These plush-coated, black-capped gentry. 1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor v, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. II. 99 The pinched visage of the peak-bearded, black-capped puritan. 1855 A. B. Warner My Brother's Keeper xx. 212 The firemen,..swarthy, smoky, black-capped and red-shirted figures. 1908 Westm. Gaz. 15 Jan. 3/1 Moors in turbans..and black-capped Jews. 1930 E. Blunden Summer's Fancy 22 And black-capped and gowned The sour-tongued master stared. 2000 J. C. Blake Wildwood Boys (2001) 104 The graybeard, the last to come off the ferry and spitting at the sight of the blackcapped man already well down the road. 2. Chiefly in the names of birds: having the top of the head black. Cf. black cap n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [adjective] > having bird's head > of particular colour red-headed1556 white-crowned1605 red-capped1648 redhead1738 blue-headed1743 grey-headed1747 black-capped1751 ruby-crowned1758 ruby-headed1811 1751 G. Edwards Nat. Hist. Birds IV. 170 (heading) The first Black-capped Lory. 1783 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds II. ii. 727 Black-Capped Cr[eeper]..head is black. 1839 J. J. Audubon Synopsis Birds N. Amer. 88 Black-capped mocking-bird.—Cat bird... From Texas to Massachusetts. 1870 Amer. Naturalist 3 74 The cries and habits of all these black-capped species. 1907 ‘N. Blanchan’ Birds Every Child should Know ii. 20 These sociable, active, cheerful little black-capped fellows in gray like to hunt for their living in loose scattered flocks. 1942 National Geographic Mag. June 796/2 Our friendly little black-capped chickadee..is almost the exact counterpart of the European coal tit. 2003 Pop. Sci. Dec. 114/2 Whitney and..Fernando Pacheco suspected that a bird called the black-capped antwren was actually three species. Compounds black-capped petrel n. a petrel, Pterodroma hasitata (family Procellariidae), native to islands in the Caribbean and now endangered, having a dark brown back and upper wings, white underparts, and a distinctive black cap; = diablotin n. 2a. ΚΠ 1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 328 Black-capped Petrel. 1939 Auk 56 73 Mr. L. Dalencour..forwarded to me a description of a curious bird found on the Champ de Mars in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, that seems certainly to have been the Black-capped Petrel. 2013 Eureka (Calif.) Times Standard (Nexis) 8 Oct. As part of an expedition led by Environmental Protection in the Caribbean,..Brown and his crew helped locate and describe some of the first Black-capped Petrel colonies ever recorded. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1658 |
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