单词 | ice banner |
释义 | > as lemmasice banner ice banner n. originally U.S. (a) a decorative pattern or shape made from the formation of ice crystals, esp. on a surface; spec. = ice feather n. (now rare); (b) a banner carved as an ice sculpture. ΚΠ 1884 Science 25 Apr. 523/2 Ice-banners are evidently formed from the vapor of passing clouds... He thinks that possibly the base of a cloud-banner might be found to be an ice-banner. 1895 G. A. J. Cole Open-air Stud. ii. 39 The ice-crystals have been deposited as such out of the atmosphere, accumulating one on another, the ice-banner sometimes pointing in the teeth of the wind. 1997 Press Assoc. (Nexis) 17 Jan. The penguin was carved from a block of ice in central London and stood temporarily on top of a carved ice banner reading ‘Our home is melting, save it’. 2002 E. Adler tr. in New Eng. Rev. Spring 9 These plumes of ice-banner in the piercingly blue sky. < as lemmas |
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