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单词 blemya
释义 blemya|ˈblɛmɪə|
Usu. in pl. blemyae.
[L. Blem(m)yae, f. Gr. βλέµυες, an Ethiopian people, ‘acc. to the fable (Mel. 8), without head and eyes, and with the mouth in the breast’ (Lewis and Short).]
A type of mediæval carved image (see quot. 1915).
1915G. C. Druce in Archaeological Jrnl. LXXII. 138 A pair of Blemyae are carved as wing-subjects upon one of the misericords in Norwich cathedral church... Each of them is represented as a headless man with his face upon his breast.1955M. D. Anderson Imagery Brit. Churches iii. xiii. 182 The Blemyae, whose faces are in their stomachs, are carved upon misericords at Ripon and in Norwich Cathedral.
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