单词 | white nun |
释义 | > as lemmaswhite nun b. More fully white nun. The smew, Mergus albellus; spec. the adult male, which has white plumage with black markings. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > genus Mergus (merganser) > mergus albellus (smew) smeath1622 nun1666 merganser1668 smee1668 smew1674 weasela1682 Easterling1772 magpie diver1796 vare-widgeon1813 1666 C. Merrett Pinax Rerum Naturalium Britannicarum 183 Nun est avis aquatica querquedula paulo minor, Rostrum ei rotundum [etc.]. 1673 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words 95 This hath no English name known to me, unless it be that which Dr. Merret in his Pinax calls by the name of Nun: The Germans call it the White Nun. 1710 Philos. Trans. 1708–09 (Royal Soc.) 26 466 Mergus major cirratus, the Smew, or White Nun. 1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. ii. 148 The Smew..White Nun. 1817 T. Forster Synoptical Catal. Brit. Birds 34 Mergus albellus, Smew..White Nun, Lough Diver. 1859 S. G. Goodrich Illustr. Nat. Hist. Animal Kingdom II. 326 The Smew or White Nun..is seventeen and a half inches long. 1885 W. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 165 Smew... From its white crest and the band of black feathers on the back of the head, which give something of the appearance of a hood, come the names White Nun (Ireland). Cf. Nonette (Picardy). [etc.]. 1920 T. A. Coward Birds Brit. Isles 2nd Ser. 82 The ‘white Nun’, as it [sc. the adult drake] is called..has a drooping white crest. white nun white nun n. [from the colour of the habit worn; compare post-classical Latin monialis alba (13th cent. in British sources)] a Cistercian nun; cf. white monk n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > Order of St. Benedict > [noun] > Cistercian > female white nun?1518 ?1518 Cocke Lorelles Bote sig. C.iij With a company dyde I mete As ermytes monkes and freres Chanons chartores and Inholders And many whyte nonnes with whyte vayles That was full wanton of theyr tayles. 1615 J. Sylvester Hymn of Almes 51 in 2nd Session Parl. Vertues Reall To Black-Friers, some white Nunnes to meet. 1779 Some Acct. Alien Priories I. 156 An abbey of White Nuns of the Cistertian order, founded A. D. 1150. 1877 J. Penderel-Brodhurst Guide to Boscobel v. 20 Whiteladies... The name is derived from the circumstance that the house was once a Priory of Cistercian or White Nuns. 1954 A. Seton Katherine xxxii. 536 Katherine..surveyed the two nuns... White nuns, Cistercians, shrouded in snowy wimples and habits. 2001 J. Burton in R. Horrox & S. Rees Jones Pragmatic Utopias ii. 26 The ‘white nuns’ of the Gilbertines and Cistercians. < as lemmas |
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