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单词 lowish-lying
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lowish-lying
In parasynthetic and other adjectives, as lowish-backed, lowish-lying, lowish-quality, etc., derived from similar adjectives with low (see low adj. and n.2 Compounds 1, Compounds 2).
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1689Lowish back'd [see main sense].
1855 Cottage Gardener 17 Apr. 45/1 Recommended..for lowish-roofed houses.
c1890 My Secret Life II. 302 There was a lowish-backed easy-chair which I usually sat in by the breakfast-table.
1911 Ibis 5 103 The nest is built on the ground in lowish-lying situations and in the denser vegetation.
1982 A. Weale Wedding of Year iv. 97 She nodded, lifting her skirt to show him a black-stockinged ankle and a lowish-heeled black patent lace-up.
1991 O. Clarke Webster's Wine Guide 1992 214/2 Fruity, sweetish, swigging wine, from the heavy-cropping lowish-quality grape of the same name in the irrigated vineyards along the Murray River.
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