单词 | speckled beauty |
释义 | > as lemmasspeckled beauty a. Of animals, their skin, parts, etc. speckled beauty, a fine trout. ΚΠ 1482 W. Caxton Trevisa's Higden ii. xi. 86 Alle the spekeld lammes and kyddes. a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Certain Bks. Aenæis (1557) ii. sig. Biv The adder..Rered for wrath swelling her speckled neck. 1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Fiv v A foxe though he haue not so gawdye a skin as the Leopard, hath more wit then the speckled foole. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. A5v She..Turning fierce, her speckled taile aduaunst. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 5 [Sharks] are alwayes directed by a little specled fish, called a pilot fish. 1675 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Odysses xiv. 166 A Goatskin..Of which a speckl'd wild Goat had been flaid. 1735 W. Somervile Chace i. 247 His Ears and Legs Fleckt here and there, in gay enamell'd Pride Rival the speckled Pard. 1789 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. II ii. 109 Two Serpent-forms..plough'd their foamy way with speckled breasts. 1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram I. i. v. 77 The speckled trout, fresh from the stream. 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. i. 15 A clean old woman..talking to some speckled fowls. 1873 G. C. Davies Mountain, Meadow & Mere xiv. 112 In the mean time I had landed two speckled beauties. < as lemmas |
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