单词 | turn-coat-coloured |
释义 | > as lemmasturn-coat-coloured ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > change of colour > [adjective] turn-coat-coloured1567 verse-coloured1607 the world > time > change > [noun] > one who or that which changes alterera1525 turncoat1567 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 11 This is a maruellous turncote, for that it doth conforme it self to all settes and dispositions of the Ayre. 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 12 b Kaman the stone may well be called a turncote, for that it is now blacke, now white, now shame~fast & blushing. 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 113 Of a changeable colour, betwixt white, greene, browne & yellow, for which occasion some haue called it versi-color Chamæleon, that is, a Turne-coate-coloured Chamæleon. < as lemmas |
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