单词 | bride's knot |
释义 | > as lemmasbride's knot bride's knot n. a knot of ribbons, a floral decoration, or a similar ornament worn at a wedding.Cf. earlier bride-knot n. at Compounds 1a. ΚΠ 1813 G. Bruce Poems, Ballads, & Songs 62 Whar are ye gaun, sweet lass, this gaet, Gin ane may at ye spier, now; A' busket out sae clean, an' neat, Bride's knots, an' sic like gear, now? 1841 Lady Eastlake Resid. Shores Baltic I. xii. 266 We..were received at the door by four..bachelors selected from the mutual families, each with a white bride's knot round his arm. 1992 N. Freedman Seventh Stone 36 Her face was painted in the traditional white, her hair piled high in an elaborate coiffure and crowned in a bride's knot. < as lemmas |
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