单词 | well-foughten field |
释义 | > as lemmaswell-foughten field = well-fought adj. 1. Chiefly in well-foughten field.In later use frequently with allusion to Shakespeare (see quot. 1600). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > battlefield > [adjective] > contested well-fought1523 well-foughten1525 battled1810 wagered1876 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. cxlv. f. clixv Wherto should I write longe proces, this was a sore batayle and well foughten? 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V iv. vi. 18 In this glorious and well foughten field. 1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxii. 61 Broughton..there lastly gaue his blood To that well-foughten Field. 1757 G. Bally Day of Judgement 22 A Roman Chief, from the well-foughten Field Returning. 1789 R. Alves Edinburgh ii. 26 Lo, in sight, what fields appear, Well-foughten with the Scottish spear. 1868 W. Morris Earthly Paradise ii. 417 Her lover, who from Thessaly Was come from some well-foughten field of war. 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Weel foughten, well contested. 1911 Munsey's Mag. 45 545/1 Is not the very existence of such a treatise..curiously significant of the seriousness with which this old warfare of blonde versus brunette has been waged? Certainly it is a well-foughten field. < as lemmas |
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