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单词 crown-shorn
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crown-shorn
crown-shorn adj. literary, now rare (a) having a shaven crown; spec. tonsured (obsolete); (b) shorn of a crown.
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1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1036/1 The whole crownshoren company brought to vtter shame.
?1630 T. Adams Wks. 787 These fires haue beene kindled in a Land of peace, though many teares haue been showred vpon them... Yea, and will be still, so long as that crowne-shorne generation can transport their burning quils into England.
1826 Kaleidoscope 23 May 376/2 No more thy [sc. Tintern Abbey's] walls will shelter crown-shorn guests.
1920 Times 29 June 15/1 These men [sc. Lenin and Trotsky] to-day ironically symbolize the two crown-shorn heads of the pitifully bedraggled Russian eagle.
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