单词 | black-flagged |
释义 | black-flaggedadj. Now chiefly historical. That displays a black flag; esp. designating a pirate ship flying a black ensign. Cf. black flag n. 1. ΚΠ 1832 Quid, or, Tales of my Messmates 20 Soon as we reached the deck of the black-flagged Pagoda, we heard a sudden rush of water. 1874 Monthly Packet Aug. 119 The funeral obsequies were performed..and the court set out for Buda in fifty black-flagged ships, accompanied by demonstrations of the deepest grief from the people. 1902 W. J. Mills Hist. Houses New Jersey 133 The Arthur Kull Sound, where the notorious Captain Kidd once sailed his black-flagged galley. 1958 Lebanon (Pa.) Daily News 24 Nov. 3/4 [The] stubborn and courageous governor at Charleston..impressed merchant vessels into service and went out after the black-flagged ships. 1996 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 68 633 The Weimar period witnessed revolutionary and counterrevolutionary assaults of Hamburg, Berlin, and Munich, a black-flagged farmers' insurrection in the northern provinces, [etc]. 2001 K. Doherty To conquer is to Live 18 (caption) This picture shows a black-flagged pirate ship overtaking a trading vessel. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1832 |
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