| 单词 | straw boots |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstraw boots straw boots n. dialect wisps of straw tied round the feet and legs; hence as a nickname for the 7th Dragoon Guards. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and feet > [noun] > other straw boots1707 bootikin1885 1707 tr. M.-C. d'Aulnoy Diverting Wks. 493 Admiral Sharp-Cap dispatcht away John Prattle-Box, Courier in Ordinary of the Closet, with his Straw-Boot [Fr. botté de paille], to inform the King. 1832 D. Vedder Orcadian Sketches in Poems (1878) 298 His legs were completely enveloped in twisted straw, generally known by the name of ‘strae boots’. 1879 All the Year Round 5 Apr. 370/1 The Seventh [Dragoon Guards] has been known indifferently as the Black Horse,..and as the Virgin Mary's Guard; but its more popular pseudonym is the Straw Boots. < as lemmas |
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