单词 | daughter-law |
释义 | daughter-lawn. Now regional. = daughter-in-law n. (chiefly in sense 1). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > daughter > [noun] > daughter-in-law daughter-in-lawa1382 good-daughter1494 daughter-law1521 law-daughter1582 bahu1959 makoti1963 1521 W. More Jrnl. 22 Apr. (1913) 146 Item rewards to master crofts dowgter lawe at her wedyng..6s. 8d. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. x. f. xiiij The doughterelawe ageinst her motherelawe. 1567 G. Turberville tr. Ovid Heroycall Epist. 36 Thy Father would not entertaine in Greece a daughter lawe [L. nurum]. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors vi. 363 Schach-Abas thought his Daughter so handsom, that he made a Present of her to his Daughter-law, Sefi-Myrsa's Widdow. 1817 C. Cuthbertson Rosabella III. xvii. 321 There was no popery, nor sedition, in any thing as my daughter-law, Lady Orasher, wrote to those parliament men. 1886 T. Hardy Mayor of Casterbridge xxxi, in Harper's Weekly 3 Apr. 214/4 Mr. Farfrae have bought the concern and all of we work-folk with it; and 'tis better for us than 'twas—though I shouldn't say that to you as a daughter-law. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Darter-law, (always) daughter-in-law. 2012 Hindustan Times (Nexis) 28 July The grandfather cannot now defend his son and daughter-law. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1521 |
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