| 释义 |
grey-coated, a.
Having a grey coat; grey-coated parson (see quot. a 1825 in grey-coat b).
1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. i. iv. 64 Her Waggoner, a small gray-coated Gnat. 1853in Cobbett's Rur. Rides 647 note, A large holder of lay tithes: one of those to whom the author applied the name of ‘grey-coated parson’. 1895Daily News 9 Dec. 5/6 Detachments..grey-coated and warmly clad. |