| 单词 | halfsleeve |
| 释义 | > as lemmashalf-sleeve C1. Forming compounds used as modifiers, e.g. half-calf, half-power, half-sleeve, etc. Π 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Halfe pounde, selibra. Halfe pownde wayght, semissis. 1753 Scots Mag. June 310/1 Each..received a half-peck loaf. 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. v. 86 A half-quartern loaf and a piece of cheese. 1872 O. W. Holmes Poet at Breakfast-table (1885) viii. 192 None of your ‘half-calf’ economies in that volume! 1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 224 Half-quarter repeaters, instead of giving the minutes, strike one additional blow if the half-quarter has passed. 1886 R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. I. 88 A half-hatch door. 1898 Pearson's Mag. May 539/1 With a half-power steamer which had only one man all told upon her decks. 1921 W. J. Locke Mountebank i. 7 A thick half-litre glass of beer. 1981 Washington Post (Nexis) 17 Apr. (Weekend section) 37 Spinach is very nutritious: a half-cup serving furnishes all of the recommended daily amount of vitamin A for an adult man. 2017 Irish Times (Nexis) 14 Jan. 19 An embroidered floral half-sleeve shift dress. half-sleeve half-sleeve n. ΚΠ 1689 London Gaz. No. 2477/4 A sad coloured Cloth Coat, with..blue half Sleeves. < as lemmas |
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