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单词 whin-bush
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whin-bushn.

Brit. /ˈwɪnbʊʃ/, U.S. /ˈ(h)wɪnˌbʊʃ/
Forms: see whin n.1 and bush n.1; also 1500s wyn-, 1600s wine-.
A furze-bush.
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1483 Cath. Angl. 416/1 A Whyn buske..salivnca, saliuncula, paliurus.
1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1728/1 He tost a faggot at his face..and set a wynbushe of thornes vnder his feete.
1644 Duke of Newcastle Let. 14 Mar. in C. H. Firth Life W. Cavendish Duke of Newcastle (1886) (modernized text) App. 352 Through some fields of furze and whin bushes.
1721 A. Ramsay Petit. Whin-bush Club 19 To come beneath your Whin-Bush Shade.
1881 J. Grant Cameronians iv Masses of whin-bush (or gorse as it is called in England).
1889 A. Conan Doyle Micah Clarke x. 83 The gentle murmur of the breeze amongst the whin-bushes.
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