单词 | fiddle-case boots |
释义 | > as lemmasfiddle-case boots 1. The case in which a fiddle is kept. Also attributive, fiddle-case boots: boots as big as a fiddle-case. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > bowable instrument > [noun] > violin > case for boot1594 fiddle-case1647 violin-case1685 1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 26 To spend their lives in making fidle-cases for futilous womens phansies. 1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 173 Heads..as empty as a fiddle case. 1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (1839) VIII. 71 Half a dozen tall footmen each bearing a fiddle case. 1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour xii. lxvi. 365 Tweed trousers thrust into fiddle-case boots. < as lemmas |
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