| 单词 | callow down |
| 释义 | > as lemmascallow down 4. Chiefly in callow down. Designating the down of an unfledged bird; (hence) designating the soft facial hair of a boy or youth. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > types of hair > [adjective] > down mosya1475 mossy1567 callow down1598 tomentous1657 tomentose1698 pluffy1809 fluffy1848 pilar1860 the world > animals > birds > feather > [adjective] > having down > of unfledged bird > of down of callow down1598 1598 W. Lisle tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Colonies 3 With downie callow feather Some yong ones dare assay to wrastl'against the weather. 1604 M. Drayton Owle sig. Cv His softe and callow downe. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals viii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 37 The callow Down began to cloath my Chin. 1735 W. Somervile Chace ii. 457 Prove..their Valour's Growth Mature, e'er yet the callow Down has spread Its curling Shade. 1843 Ainsworth's Mag. 3 138 The system which converts the callow down of the young ravens into their perfect plumage. 1899 Leeds Mercury Weekly Suppl. 7 Jan. 6/6 Some months of careful and assiduous effort had produced a soft and callow down, which was the pride of the future actor's heart and the delight of his eyes. ?1909 ‘O. S.’ Time's Revenges in Punch's Almanack for 1910 You have passed, you say, the salad season, Growing sick of boyhood's callow fluff. 1966 ‘A. Burgess’ Tremor of Intent ii. ii. 65 He was totally bald, but the smooth scalp..seemed less an affliction than an achievement, as though hair were a mere callow down to be shed in maturity. < as lemmas |
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