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单词 white wings
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white wings
white wings n. figurative sails; also occasionally in singular.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > collectively
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1778 J. Clark tr. Wks. Caledonian Bards 136 Unhappy are ye, sons of the sea; for never more shall ye raise your white wings of speed.
1814 Ld. Byron Corsair i. iii. 5 How gloriously her gallant course she [sc. the ship] goes! Her white wings flying.
1880 W. Black (title) White wings: a yachting romance.
2008 New Yorker 9 June 59/2 On this weekday there were no people to be seen; only occasional cloudlets of exclamation or laughter were audible, and on the lake there hovered a white wing—a yacht's sail.
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