| 单词 | upon the bricole |
| 释义 | > as lemmasupon the bricole ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > [noun] > cause of surprise marvelc1300 miracle1586 surprise1592 bricolea1631 surprisal1660 thunderbolt1787 startle1823 start1825 startler1829 eye-opener1833 a bolt from (or out of) the blue1837 shock1841 thunder-clap1852 startlement1867 staggerer1872 thunderstroke1880 Scarborough warning1890 surprise packet1900 bombshell1926 curveball1936 turn-up1942 a turn-up for the book(s)1948 conversation stopper1959 left turn1986 a1631 J. Donne Let. in T. Matthew Coll. Lett. (1659) 65 That love, which..fell not directly, and immediately upon my self, but by way of reflection or Briccole..(to use the Metaphor of a Game, wherein I congratulate that excellencie, to which..you have arrived). 1673 A. Marvell Rehearsall Transpros'd: 2nd Pt. 47 One Simons, who rob'd alwayes upon the Bricolle, that is to say, never interrupted the Passengers but still set upon the Thieves themselves after..they were gorged with a booty. 1755 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 25 Dec. in Misc. Wks. (1777) II. 228 It is a bricole of self-love. 1789 H. Walpole Reminiscences (1924) iii. 40 Introducing two courtiers to acquaint one another, and by bricole the audience, with what had passed in the penetralia. < as lemmas |
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