单词 | olive leaf |
释义 | > as lemmasolive leaf olive leaf n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > peace > [noun] > emblem of olivea1398 olive branch?a1400 olive leaf1667 ?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 86 Aposteme..is opened wiþ yren, and..be þe hole made..to þe schappe of an olyue leaf or of þe leef of myrtus. ?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens iv. sig. Piijv Lyke to Olyue Leafe. 1611 Bible (King James) Gen. viii. 11 Lo, in her mouth was an oliveleaf pluckt off. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 860 An Olive leafe he brings, pacific signe. View more context for this quotation 1744 Philos. Trans. 1740–41 (Royal Soc.) 41 495 The Bowl is pointed like an Olive-leaf. 1829 S. T. Coleridge Compl. Poet. Wks. (1912) I. 483 Be thou the olive-leaf and she the dove, And say, I greet thee with a brother's love! 1853 C. Brontë Villette III. xl. 250 All that evening I waited, trusting in the dove-sent olive-leaf. 1903 H. P. Smith Old Test. Hist. 28 After another interval of seven days he makes another attempt with the dove and is rewarded with a freshly plucked olive leaf. 1962 A. E. Keep tr. F. Matz Art of Crete & Early Greece 57 The early representations of flowers have been improved upon: we know of..olive leaves in gold combined with small chains. 2001 Daily Tel. 24 Oct. 24/8 Supplements containing olive leaf, lapacho, Siberian ginseng or grapeseed extracts may help. < as lemmas |
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