单词 | tranchant |
释义 | tranchantadj. Early form of trenchant adj. and n.; also from 18th cent. a loanword from French; esp. in figurative sense: = trenchant adj. 2; also of colours, glaring, crude. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > side arms > sword > [adjective] > sharp or keen tranchanta1529 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > vigour or force > [adjective] > incisive trenchanta1325 eagera1382 keena1400 tuant1672 tranchant1776 incisivea1850 the world > matter > colour > quality of colour > [adjective] > garish violenta1522 garisha1568 savage1706 raw1763 criard1840 tranchant1841 flagrant1858 blaring1866 criant1876 screamy1882 screaming1883 raucous1919 shrieking1958 shrill1973 a1529 J. Skelton Poems against Garnesche in Poet Wks. (1843) I. 124 Your sworde ye swere, I wene, So tranchaunt and so kene. 1776 H. Walpole Let. to W. Mason 18 Feb. Modest as he is tranchant and sly as Montesquieu without being so recherché. 1812 Edinb. Rev. Feb. 475 The Notes are written in a flippant, lively, tranchant and assuming style. 1832 L. Hunt Poems Pref. 22 Dryden had a tranchant sword, which demanded stoutness in the sheath. 1841 W. M. Thackeray Second Funeral Napoleon iii The raw tranchant colours of the new banners. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < |
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