英语词汇“head and front”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

head and front n. the highest extent or pitch of something; the principal and foremost part of something; the core, the essence.Sometimes consciously echoing quot. a1616.

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a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. iii. 80 It is most true: true, I haue married her, The very head and front of my offending, Hath this extent no more.

1795 S. J. Pratt Gleanings through Wales I. vi. 46 Occasionally to borrow from others, what may be honorable to them in the repetition..is the ‘head and front’ of my office as a Gleaner.

1799 N. Gay Strictures on Proposed Union 7 It is the very being, end and aim, the very head and front on which this subject for and against an union will unquestionably rest.

1813 W. Scott Let. 25 July (1932) III. 308 The head and front of your offending is precisely your not writing explicitly.

1888 J. W. Burgon Lives Twelve Good Men II. xii. 375 He was the head and front of every movement for good in his neighbourhood.

1941 W. J. Cash Mind of South ii. ii. 157 There arose in the South the white tenant and the white cropper, the head and front of the poor-white class from that day to this.

1996 M. A. Doody True Story of Novel (1997) xviii. 428 The head and front of the offense is the transformation of the palpable and natural into the spectacular and artificial.

单词	head and front
释义	> as lemmas head and front head and front n. the highest extent or pitch of something; the principal and foremost part of something; the core, the essence.Sometimes consciously echoing quot. a1616. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. iii. 80 It is most true: true, I haue married her, The very head and front of my offending, Hath this extent no more. View more context for this quotation 1795 S. J. Pratt Gleanings through Wales I. vi. 46 Occasionally to borrow from others, what may be honorable to them in the repetition..is the ‘head and front’ of my office as a Gleaner. 1799 N. Gay Strictures on Proposed Union 7 It is the very being, end and aim, the very head and front on which this subject for and against an union will unquestionably rest. 1813 W. Scott Let. 25 July (1932) III. 308 The head and front of your offending is precisely your not writing explicitly. 1888 J. W. Burgon Lives Twelve Good Men II. xii. 375 He was the head and front of every movement for good in his neighbourhood. 1941 W. J. Cash Mind of South ii. ii. 157 There arose in the South the white tenant and the white cropper, the head and front of the poor-white class from that day to this. 1996 M. A. Doody True Story of Novel (1997) xviii. 428 The head and front of the offense is the transformation of the palpable and natural into the spectacular and artificial. extracted from headn.¹ < as lemmas
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