单词 | blue-veined |
释义 | blue-veinedadj. 1. Having blue veins. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > skin > mark on skin > [adjective] bluea1475 blue-veined1593 areolated1802 1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. Biijv These blew-veind violets whereon we leane. View more context for this quotation 1637 T. Heywood Pleasant Dialogues & Dramma's 160 The blew vein'd Nereæ, And green hair'd Dorides with all their brats. 1776 R. Chandler Trav. Greece xlix. 212 We found three pedestals, of blue veined marble. 1828 S. T. Coleridge Christabel (rev. ed.) i, in Poet. Wks. II. 45 Her blue-veined feet unsandal'd were. 1858 A. Mayhew Paved with Gold 349 Holding the book in a blue-veined hand. 1927 J. Joyce Flower given to Daughter in Pomes Penyeach Frail the white rose and frail are Her hands that gave... Rosefrail and fair..My blueveined child. 1971 L. Beckwith About my Father's Business (1973) vi. 70 Long bars of a cream-coloured, blue-veined, scrubbing soap known as ‘blue mottle’. 1992 Mother Jones May 62/1 He did look preternaturally young and wan, his blue-veined eyelids translucent. 2. spec. Of a cheese: having the veins of blue mould characteristic of blue cheese. Cf. earlier blue vein adj. at blue adj. and n. Compounds 1d. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > mouldy or musty fennyc1000 vinnyOE mouleda1250 moulya1398 mouldena1400 spaked1438 vinniedc1450 mouldy1495 hoared1496 mustyc1503 foisty1519 mocha1522 hoary1530 hoar1544 mouldeda1552 mowsy1566 foistied1572 fustied1576 spaky1590 musted1632 mouldish1648 emucid1656 mucid1656 mungy1658 mouldly1678 foisted1688 mothery1697 vinnewya1722 rusty-fustya1790 musty-fusty1857 mucidous1866 blue-vinnied1880 blue-veined1898 the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > cheese > [adjective] > qualities of cheese miteyc1650 two-meal1741 fire-fanged1808 mature1833 blue-vinnied1838 skimmed1881 blue vein1893 open-meated1896 well-meated1896 blue-veined1898 bleu1918 crustless1927 1838 W. Holloway Gen. Dict. Provincialisms at Fenny In Hampshire when cheese is beginning to decay, and just showing those blue lines, it is said to be blue-vinnied, that is, I presume ‘blue veined’.] 1898 Land Mag. Nov. 593 Candidates..had to make one hard-pressed cheese, one blue-veined cheese, one fancy cheese, and also to make butter. 1957 Life 7 Oct. 172/2 This..cheese is America's version of the famous blue veined cheeses made in a number of European countries. 1980 Times 27 Oct. 15/8 The blue-veined Cheshire which is now a fashionable alternative to Stilton. 2007 D. Olson et al. Europe for Dummies (ed. 4) xiii. 230 French cheese is justifiably famous, with brie and Camembert and blue-veined Roquefort topping the list. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。