| 释义 |
ˈwolfskin
The skin or pelt of a wolf; a garment, etc. made of this. Also attrib.
c1410Master of Game (MS. Digby 182) vi, Þe wolfe skynn is hote forto make koffes or pylches. a1612Harington Sch. Salerne ii. (1624) 37 Garments..of Martyn or Wolfe⁓skinnes. 1734Free Briton No. 255. 2/2 Multitudes believe..that a Sheep-skin Drum bursts asunder at the beat of a Wolf-skin Drum. 1805Scott Last Minstr. iii. xvi, His bugle-horn..in a wolf-skin baldric tied. 1859Tennyson Elaine 809 His battle-writhen arms and mighty hands Lay naked on the wolfskin. 1918Blackw. Mag. June 743/1 When our own ancestors were..barbarians in wolfskins. |