| 单词 | banner county |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbanner county C3. attributive or quasi-adj. Entitled to a banner as a distinction (originally in banner state, banner county); hence, pre-eminent, supreme. U.S. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > pre-eminence > [adjective] firsteOE headOE highOE greatc1350 upperestc1374 chief1377 singular1377 principala1382 royalc1425 cardinal1440 pre-eminenta1460 praisea1475 main1480 maina1525 primary1565 captain1566 arch1574 mistressa1586 capital1597 topless1609 primea1616 metropolitan1635 transeminent1660 whole1675 uppermost1680 primus inter pares1688 topping1694 Sudder1787 par excellence1839 banner1840 primatial1892 1840 Niles' Reg. 5 Dec. 210/1 Which is the Banner State?—The Whigs..proposed to designate whichever state should give the Harrison ticket the largest majority, as the banner state. 1840 Niles' Reg. 5 Dec. 210/1 The banner county. Designation is claimed by Worcester, Massachusetts. 1843 Knickerbocker 22 431 He who was for many years the banner-veteran of our worthies. 1866 Congress. Globe Jan. 241/3 [Mr. Price] came within a few votes of losing the banner county of his State. 1886 Harper's Mag. June 78/2 The Magnolia Plantation..which claims to be one of the banner plantations of the State. 1887 Harper's Mag. July 237/2 She had the banner crop of tobacco in that county last year. 1890 Congress. Globe June 6522/1 One of the arguments..is that Newcastle is the banner town of Crook County. 1903 N.Y. Evening Post 21 Sept. The earnings of all Vanderbilt lines had a banner month in August. 1910 S. E. White Adventures of Bobby Orde x. 128 On his banner day he brought down two fox-squirrels. 1931 G. T. Clark Leland Stanford x. 361 That was the farm's banner year, for at the close of the season it held world trotting records for yearlings..and stallions. 1967 Boston Sunday Herald 26 Mar. iii. 3/2 Next season will be a banner year for the browns, reports the American Wool Council. < as lemmas |
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