单词 | train-bearing |
释义 | > as lemmastrain-bearing train-bearing adj. holding up the train of a person wearing a formal robe, as a monarch or bride. ΚΠ 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Queuë Damoiselle de queuë. A waiting, or traine-bearing Gentlewoman. 1841 Waldie's Sel. Circulating Libr. May 267/1 The priests..employed him as one of the bell-ringing and train-bearing boys, who serve at the altar. 1921 G. C. D. Odell Shakespeare from Betterton to Irving I. i. vi. 207 The only authentic reference to the train-bearing page..is in Mrs. Behn's Roundheads (Dorset Garden, 1682). In Act II, Scene I, Lady Fleetwood enters, ‘her train born up’. 2006 C. Scribner Shadow of God 30 I was decidedly underwhelmed by..my superfluous role—one of two train-bearing pages of one of the Three Kings. < as lemmas |
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