单词 | mons veneris |
释义 | mons venerisn.ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > extremities > hand > [noun] > other parts of quadranglec1450 breast?1541 mons venerisa1637 mount of Venus1695 heel of the hand1704 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > palmistry > [noun] > fleshy prominence > under the thumb mons venerisa1637 mount of Venus1695 a1637 B. Jonson Masque of Gypsies 58 in tr. Horace Art of Poetry (1640) You are no great wencher, I see by your Table, Although your mons veneris sayes you are able. 1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) at Tubercula In Chiromancy are those more eminent Muscles, or protuberant parts under the Fingers; they are otherwise called Montes; that under the Thumb, Tuberculum, or Mons Veneris; [etc.]. 2. The mons pubis of a woman. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > pubes > [noun] > parts of mount of Venus1604 mons veneris1659 mons pubis1682 mons1828 1659 B. Spencer Chrysomeson 15 Some worshipped Nymphae and Hymen, and Mons Veneris, which words signifie the secret parts of womens bodies. 1684 tr. S. Blankaart Physical Dict. 200 Mons Veneris is the upper part of a Woman's Secrets, something higher than the rest. 1765 W. Hamilton Let. 18 June in I. Jenkins & K. Sloan Vases & Volcanoes (1996) iii. 42 A Venus of white marble coming out of a bath... All her tit-bits such as bubbies, mons veneris etc. are..very well preserved. 1797 Encycl. Brit. I. 740/1 The mons veneris..is internally composed of adipose membranes. 1857 W. R. Bullock tr. P. Cazeaux Theoret. & Pract. Treat. Midwifery (ed. 2) 39 The Mons Veneris is a rounded eminence..situated in front of the pubis, and surmounting the vulva. 1890 Amer. Naturalist 24 1017 The integument, situated in front of the pubes, and which in the female is known as the mons veneris, was more developed than is usual in the male. 1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xxxii. 853 Large accumulations of fat form round the lower abdomen and mons veneris. 1984 J. Heller God Knows x. 265 She even turned herself toward me a bit more to allow me a better frontal view of her plump belly and thick mons veneris. 1993 N.Y. Times 24 Oct. ii. 33/5 ‘Girl With Mole That Lights Up’ is a photograph of a naked woman's mons veneris. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1637 |
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