| 单词 | mud-sprent |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmud-sprent a. As the second element in compounds, as mud-sprent, snow-sprent, etc.cattle-, dew-sprent: see the first element. ΚΠ 1755 ‘A Gentleman of Cambridge’ Praises of Isis 16 On the dew-sprent turf..[he] sees before him dance..the Muses nine. 1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 10 No more shall..evening..draw Her star-sprent curtain round the head of earth. 1906 W. J. Steward Vision of Aorangi, & Other Poems 76 Talk not of ‘Father’ Christmas, A trav'ller hoar and old, That comes in snow-sprent mantle Across the frozen wold. 1939 J. Farnol Happy Harvest xviii. 144 Here was no stormbeaten, mud-sprent, hunted fugitive but a merry-eyed, swaggering young gallant. 2006 Believer Nov. 43/1 Possibly not since Cormac McCarthy's blood-sprent work has there been a contemporary novel such as..An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter. < as lemmas |
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