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单词 whole-leather
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whole-leather
(a) Forming compounds used attributively with the sense ‘consisting of, made with, relating to, comprising, or occupying the or a whole —’, as whole-arm, whole-body, whole-day, whole-fruit, whole-house, etc.; (in sense A. 9) whole-leather, whole-worsted, etc. rare before 19th cent.
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1410 Rolls of Parl.: Henry IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Jan. 1410 §48. m. 7 Les quelles sount appellez an holworstedbed.
1607 ‘W. S.’ Puritaine i. 4 My fathers layde in dust his Coffin and he is like a whole-meate-pye, and the wormes will cut him vp shortlie.
1823 C. Lamb Christ's Hosp. in Elia 30 The haunting memory of those whole-day-leaves.
1866 W. D. Howells Venetian Life xvi. 246 A grand, whole-arm movement.
1888 Wyman's Commerc. Encycl. 224 There is no more nutritious or palatable preserve in the world than a carefully-prepared whole-fruit jam.
1903 Westm. Gaz. 9 Oct. 6/3 A whole-leather boot could not be honestly purchased under 7s. 11d.
1947 Radiology 49 283/1 To determine whether a daily dose of whole-body irradiation when given over a period of several hours produced the same injury as when given within minutes.
1976 National Observer (U.S.) 19 June 8 (advt.) Your Trane Comfort Corps consultant is a full-time specialist in whole-house air conditioning.
1990 Times Educ. Suppl. 19 Oct. R13/1 There is..a vital need in primary schools to plan on a whole-school approach to achieve balanced and effective integration.
2002 Inquirer Mag. 5 May 25/1 Hover's version of a rarely imported Malaysian mackerel that he calls devil fish is one of the best whole-fish dishes around.
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