单词 | familiar-faced |
释义 | > as lemmasfamiliar-faced a. Forming complementary and parasynthetic adjectives, as familiar-faced, familiar-looking, familiar-sounding, etc. ΚΠ 1819 New Monthly Mag. Oct. 283/2 The great Frederick of Prussia wrote a small and familiar looking hand. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda III. vi. xlviii. 364 A coarse, familiar-mannered man. 1937 Listener 29 Dec. 1407/1 There never was a time in its history..when, according to some authority or another, pantomime was not dying. Here is one familiar-sounding plaint. 1997 New Yorker 26 May 86/1 It's one of those familiar-seeming lyrics that turn strange at second glance. 2004 W. T. Harper Eleven Days Hell 301 Prison guards..did not always strip-search familiar-faced trustees. < as lemmas |
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