| 单词 | tawny-haired |
| 释义 | > as lemmastawny-haired C1. Parasynthetic, etc., as tawny-coloured, tawny-eyed, tawny-faced, tawny-haired, tawny-necked, tawny-skinned, tawny-stained, tawny-tanned, tawny-throated, tawny-visaged, tawny-whiskered. ΚΠ 1589 H. Hawks in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 548 The people of the Countrey, are of a good stature, tawnie coloured, broad faced, flat nosed. a1618 J. Sylvester New-polished Spectacles in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) 1178 When the Leaves in Autumn wither, With a tawny tanned Face. 1687 London Gaz. No. 2298/3 A tawny visaged Man. 1740 P. Pineda New Dict., Spanish & Eng. (new ed.) at Denostar A tawny fac'd Woman dress'd up, reviles the fair one. 1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 82 Red, black or white, olive, or tawny-skinned. 1853 M. Arnold Poems (new ed.) 64 Hark! ah, the Nightingale! The tawny-throated! 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. v. 108 Some tawny-whiskered, brown-locked, clear-complexioned young Englishman. 1862 J. H. Burton Book-hunter i. 18 He was not a black-letter man..or a tawny-moroccoite [collector of books bound in tawny morocco]. 1930 E. Blunden Poems 42 And tawny-stained with ruin [the brook] trolls across The tiny village battered into dross. 1940 C. Day Lewis tr. Virgil Georgics iv. 90 A laminated dragon or lioness tawny-necked. 1952 R. Campbell tr. C. Baudelaire Poems 87 Like angels fierce and tawny-eyed, Back to your chamber I will glide. < as lemmas |
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