单词 | courier-borne |
释义 | > as lemmascourier-borne b. As a modifier, with the sense ‘by means of a courier; by courier’, as in courier-borne, courier-delivered, courier-sent, etc. ΚΠ 1868 Pall Mall Gaz. 10 June 4/1 Courier-borne news..can reach England as quickly by way of Peshawur as by way of..the Russian telegraph. 1994 Daily Mail 1 Dec. 35/2 She herself had been dropped (in a six-page courier delivered letter) by Sylvester Stallone with whom she had shared almost six years. 2014 E. G. Longacre Early Morning War xvi. 440 To the general's manifest disgust, another courier-borne message ordered him to defer attacking and hold his position. < as lemmas |
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