| 单词 | dead leaf |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdead leaf dead leaf n. (a) the colour of a dead leaf; chiefly as adj., = feuillemorte adj.; (b) Aeronautics (see quot. 1918). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [adjective] > yellowish brown > dead leaf colour filemot1647 feuillemorte1690 dead leaf1864 1864 M. B. Chesnut Diary 27 May in C. V. Woodward Mary Chesnut's Civil War (1981) xxiv. 610 Brushing scant locks which were shining fleecy white. Her maid would be doing hers, which were dead-leaf brown. 1896 Daily News 17 Oct. 6/5 A woollen skirt of a dead-leaf shade. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 21 Oct. 18/2 That delightful sort of golden browny shade that is really best described as dead leaf. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 21 Oct. 18/2 This same peculiar dead-leaf colour. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 21 Oct. 18/2 Some folds of dead-leaf-coloured crêpe de Chine. 1918 E. S. Farrow Dict. Mil. Terms Dead leaf, in aviation, the term applied to an aircraft when its movement resembles that of a falling dead leaf. 1930 R. Lehmann Note in Music 35 The dead-leaf colour of the walls gave back a feeble reflection. < as lemmas |
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