| 单词 | carbuncle face |
| 释义 | > as lemmascarbuncle face C1. General attributive, as carbuncle face, carbuncle nose, †carbuncle tumour, etc. ΚΠ 1656 in J. Phillips Sportive Wit i. 47 A Carbuncle face Saves a tedious race:..let's drink till our noses Give freedom to speak what our fancie disposes. 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 928 Their sting..causeth a carbuncle tumor. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Carbuncle-Face, very Red and full of large Pimples. 1710 Tatler No. 260. ⁋7 A Carbuncle Nose likewise bore an excessive Rate. 1796 R. Bage Hermsprong II. xv. 103 All victims of gout, save one, hitherto preserved by a true carbuncle face. 1862 W. Collins No Name III. xiii. 52 Inside the casket reposed on old-fashioned carbuncle brooch, set in silver. 1864 Daily Tel. 17 Mar. A carbuncle ring on his finger. 1877 A. Trollope Amer. Senator (Detroit ed.) xiv. 72 Nickem winked again and put his forefinger to the side of his big carbuncle nose. < as lemmas |
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