| 单词 | face-mending |
| 释义 | > as lemmasface-mending face-mending n. ΚΠ 1607 G. Wilkins Miseries Inforst Mariage sig. D 4v Ilf. What beards ha they? Gentleman-like-beards, or broker-like-beards? Drawer. I am not so well acquainted with the Art of Face-mending sir. 1745 E. Haywood Female Spectator (1748) III. 234 Those..facemending stratagems. 1822 R. Heber in Whole Wks. Jeremy Taylor I. p. cccxxx They..allow their..wives and daughters whatever..concealments and reparations, art..can afford them; yet as to the point of face-mending, they condemn them. 1940 Scribner's Commentator Aug. 70 Conclusions reached were that face-mending for children is the acme of healing, since releasing them from deformed exteriors is also releasing them from deformed spirits. < as lemmas |
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