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单词 to wear the horn
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to wear the horn(s)
b. to wear the horn(s): to be a cuckold. Obsolete.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > fornication, adultery, or incest > commit fornication, adultery, or incest [verb (intransitive)] > commit adultery > be dishonoured by wife's adultery
to wear the horn(s)?1515
to wear a forker1606
?1515 Hyckescorner (de Worde) sig. C.i And knyght of the halter my fader ware an horne.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iv. ii. 14 Take thou no scorne to weare the horne . View more context for this quotation
1632 T. Hawkins tr. P. Matthieu Vnhappy Prosperitie 98 By reason he was old, and without children,..his wife should doe well to make him weare the horne.
1639 J. Clarke Paroemiologia 328 The good wife weares the breeches, the good man the hornes.
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