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单词 apple-fallow
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apple-fallow
apple-fallow adj. rare of the reddish yellow colour of an apple, bay; (perhaps also) having spots or dapples of a reddish yellow colour.The precise meaning of the word in Old English is uncertain (see M. Matschi ‘Color Terms in English’ in Onomasiology Online 5 (2004) 72); in modern use chiefly in translations of or with allusion to Beowulf 2165.
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OE Beowulf 2165 Feower mearas lungre, gelice last weardode, æppelfealuwe.
1849 A. D. Wackerbarth tr. Beowulf 83 Forthwith four apple-fallow Steeds, Alike in beauty, as I'm told, Followed his step.
1909 F. B. Gummere tr. Beowulf xxxi, in Oldest Eng. Epic 115 All apple-fallow, four good steeds, Each like the others.
1930 A. Maerz & M. R. Paul Dict. Color 189/2 Apple fallow.
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