单词 | broad-fronted |
释义 | broad-frontedadj. Having a wide face or forehead.Now usually in the names of animals. ΘΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > forehead > [adjective] > types of brentc1400 high?c1450 steep1509 high-browed?1614 broad-fronteda1616 bluff1665 low-browed1734 lofty1798 baby-browed1843 bluff-browed1851 beautiful-browed1913 c1500 in J. Harley et al. Rep. MSS R. R. Hastings (1928) I. 421 A horse hath xviij propretees, iij of an ox..brod yed, brod fronted, and syde garnesyde. a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) i. v. 29 Broad-fronted Cæsar. 1838 E. W. Lane tr. Thousand & One Nights (1839) I. Introd. 8 It was a Jinnee, of gigantic stature, broad-fronted and bulky, bearing on his head a chest. 1955 G. Cansdale Reptiles W. Afr. v. 85 The Short-nosed or Broad-fronted Crocodile..is confined to the smaller streams in the forest country. 2000 New Scientist 25 Mar. 37/2 The largest deer ever, the 1200-kilogram broad-fronted elk which lived in Eurasia around the time that Megaloceros evolved. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2022). < adj.c1500 |
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