单词 | mid-breast |
释义 | > as lemmasmid-breast mid-breast n. (a) the middle of a person's breast (originally poetic); the corresponding part of a bird or mammal; also attributive; †(b) Entomology = medipectus n. (obsolete rare). ΚΠ ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xiii. 178 When strait the royall Cretans dart, in his mid breast appear'd; It brake the curets. 1782 C. Rogers tr. Dante Inferno xxxiv. 132 The Emperor of this domain of woe from his mid-breast arose above the ice. 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. xxxv. 562 We will next say something upon those..that compose the medipectus or mid-breast. 1864 R. S. Hawker Quest of Sangraal 17 A Vast Archangel floods Sir Galahad's Shield: Mid-breast, and lifted high, an Orient Cruse..running o'er, with Numynous Light. 1939 J. D. Sinclair tr. Dante Divine Comedy: Inferno I. xxxiv. 421 The Emperor of the woeful kingdom stood forth at mid-breast from the ice. 2000 Whispering Wind (Electronic ed.) Feb. There was usually also a row of fringes threaded throughout the hide at mid-skirt and mid-breast levels, front and back. < as lemmas |
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