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单词 amber-eyed
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amber-eyed
C1. General use in various types of compound, as in amber-coloured, amber-eyed, amber-rich, amber-tinted, adjs., etc. Chiefly poetic in earlier use.See also amber-crowned adj., amber-dropping adj., amber-locked adj., amber-sanded adj. at Compounds 3, and amber-tipped adj., amber-weeping adj.
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1587 A. Day Longus's Daphnis & Chloe sig. C4 Shee made a chapelet, and therewith crowned her amber coloured tresses.
1601 J. Weever Mirror of Martyrs sig. Ev If wits pearle-dropping Opobalsamum, In Amber-streaming Eloquence were drie; Vnto my bleached cindars she might come.
1740 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 407/1 On Prussia's amber-yielding shore.
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. x. 224 The awful Circe, Goddess amber-hair'd.
1878 A. Nesbitt Descr. Catal. Glass Vessels S. Kensington Mus. 120 Amber-toned glass.
1905 La Crosse (Wisconsin) Tribune 24 Mar. 4/1 O here's a truce to all who dote Upon the amber foaming flagon!
1955 Daily Mail 23 Aug. Maria, chestnut-haired, amber-eyed, and Magdalena, dark-haired, are still on holiday in Portugal.
1990 Glories of Past (Metrop. Mus. Mod. Art, N.Y.) 130/2 All fossil resin seems to have been traded in the areas south of the amber-rich sites bordering the Baltic Sea.
2000 R. D'Amato & J. Snyder Macular Degeneration iii. x. 121 Some patients find that amber-tinted lenses are helpful in..reducing the glare of oncoming headlights.
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