| 单词 | tight-hosed |
| 释义 | > as lemmastight-hosed C1. Adjectival, as tight-belted (having a tight belt), tight-bodied, tight-booted, tight-hosed, tight-limbed, tight-skinned, tight-skirted, tight-sleeved, tight-waisted adjs; cf. tight-lipped adj. (Sometimes not clearly distinguishable from Compounds 2.) ΚΠ 1767 ‘Coriat Junior’ Another Traveller! I. 315 Their habit is entirely white..and being tight-bodied, gives them the appearance of a company of millers in their holiday-cloaths. 1836 T. Hook Gilbert Gurney I. v. 227 Perhaps a tight-skinned sailor walking his way to town from Portsmouth. 1859 G. Meredith Ordeal Richard Feverel I. v. 83 The latter boy was..not so tight-limbed and well-set. 1896 W. D. Howells Impressions & Experiences 73 She wore a tight-skirted black walking-dress. 1896 Edith Thompson in Monthly Packet Christmas No. 80 Tight-booted and tight-belted in correct Continental military style. < as lemmas |
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