| 单词 | leather-stocking |
| 释义 | > as lemmasLeather-Stocking Leather-Stocking n. [ < a character portrayed by J. F. Cooper] a North American frontiersman ; also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > [noun] > frontiersman Leather-Stocking1823 1823 J. F. Cooper Pioneers I. i. 18 His limbs were guarded with long leggings of the same material as the moccasins, which gartering over the knees of his tarnished buck-skin breeches, had obtained for him, among the settlers, the nick name of Leather-stocking.] 1823 J. F. Cooper Pioneers I. i. 11 The Leather-stocking has put his hounds into the hills this clear day. 1831 M. Holley Texas (1833) v. 43 The character of Leather Stocking, is not uncommon in Texas... The dress of these hunters is usually of deerskin. Hence the appropriate name Leather Stocking. Their generic name..is Frontiers-men. 1848 in D. Drake Pioneer Life Kentucky viii. 214 He had nearly all his life been a great hunter—was in fact a large, coarse Leather Stocking. 1909 Daily Chron. 1 July 7/3 With most birds, you must make your approach with all the art of a leatherstocking. 1965 Eng. Stud. 46 313 In this book Cooper draws repeated parallels between the Leather-stocking hero and Moses. < as lemmas |
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