| 单词 | bole armoniac |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbole Armoniac (amoniak) b. in bole Armoniac (amoniak), it is a corruption of Armeniac ‘Bole Armoniac or the Armenian Bole is a soft friable fatty earth, usually of a pale red colour.’ Chambers Cycl. ΚΠ c1386 Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Prol. & Tale 238 As bol armoniak [v.r. armonyak, -yac, amoniak], verdegres, boras. 1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health ccxliii. 275 Cloves, Mace..Bole Armenicke, of eche of them halfe a dramme. 1585 H. Llwyd tr. Pope John XXI Treasury of Health (new ed.) O iij, Take of..Mastycke, Dragons bloud, bole Amonike new, of eche like quantitee. 1627 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman (1634) xiii. 139 Margaritone was..the first that devised laying Gold or Gilding upon Bole Armoniacke to be burnished. 1751 Chambers's Cycl. (ed. 7) (at cited word), This popularly, though corruptly called in English Bole Armoniac, is called by the naturalists Armenia terra, or Armenian clay. < as lemmas |
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