| 单词 | hawk-cage |
| 释义 | > as lemmashawk-cage C1. obvious combinations, as hawk-cage, hawk-hood, hawk-perch; hawk-faced, hawk-headed adjs. ΚΠ 1483 Cath. Angl. 179/1 An Hawke bage, cassidile. 1751 G. Edwards Nat. Hist. Birds IV. 165 The Hawk-Headed Parrot. 1812 Sporting Mag. 39 27 The hawk-cage. 1832 G. Long Egypt. Antiq. I. x. 222 The hawk-headed sphinx. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 15 O wretched set of sparrows,..Who pipe of nothing but of sparrow-hawks! Speak, if you be not like the rest, hawk-mad. 1889 O. Wilde in 19th Cent. Jan. 47 She has hawk-faced gods that worship her. 1891 J. L. Kipling Beast & Man in India 55 The hawk-hood of soft deerskin..jesses, lures, and hawk-bells, are still regularly made in the Punjab. 1932 P. G. Wodehouse Louder & Funnier 68 Just one more of those curt, hawk-faced amateur investigators. 1936 Discovery Dec. 380/2 A hawk-faced negro of Benin type. 1954 ‘R. Crompton’ William & Moon Rocket iv. 101 Trying to look keen-eyed and hawk-faced, the two made their way round the cottage to the little back garden. < as lemmas |
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