单词 | moonmark |
释义 | > as lemmasmoonmark moonmark n. chiefly poetic a crescent-shaped marking. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > feather > [noun] > markings on moonmark1879 1879 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 80 Only I'll Have an eye to the sakes of him, quaint moonmarks, to his pelted plumage under Wings. 1879 G. M. Hopkins Lett. to R. Bridges (1955) 83 By moonmarks I mean crescent shaped markings on the quill-feathers, either in the colouring of the feather or made by the overlapping of one on another. 1925 W. A. Cornaby String of Chinese Peach-stones xi. 243 ‘Sun and moon Ming’ on the back, and over it the moonmark made by the thumb-nail of the Heaven King himself. 2015 L. Thomas-Sundstrom Wolf Born v. 61 His moon mark..showed through the colorless fur of his left upper arm. < as lemmas |
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