| 单词 | yard-wide |
| 释义 | > as lemmasyard-wide yard-wide adj. ΚΠ 1766 W. Gordon Gen. Counting-house 427 1 piece yard-wide quilt. 1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. xiv. 106 The practice, in retail linen-drapers' shops, of calling certain articles yard-wide when the real width is, perhaps, only seven-eighths or three-quarters. 1865 B. Brierley Irkdale I. 9 Newspapers in his ‘yardwide days’, as he would term the period of his earliest acquaintance with manhood. 1893 Lady 17 Aug. 173/2 The yard-wide tweed usually sold for trousers. < as lemmas |
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