| 单词 | pair of couples |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspair of couples a. A brace or leash for holding two hounds together. Usually in plural; also a pair of couples. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > equipment > [noun] > leash for hounds leasha1300 couplec1400 lyamc1400 coupling1607 dog couple1649 swingea1661 c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1147 Couples huntes of kest [= hunters cast off couples]. 1483 Cath. Angl. 86 A Cwpylle of hundys, copula. 1486 Bk. St. Albans E v b When he has of cast his cowples at will. 1602 Returne fr. Parnassus (Arb.) ii. v. 32 Another company of houndes..had their couples cast off. 1678 London Gaz. No. 1345/4 Strayed..a red pied Fox Beagle Bitch.. with a pair of Couples about her neck. a1763 W. Shenstone Progress of Taste ii. in Wks. Verse & Prose (1764) I. 267 Oh days! when to a girdle ty'd The couples gingled at his side. 1781 P. Beckford Thoughts on Hunting vi. 76 Care should be taken that the couples be not too loose, lest they should slip their necks out of the collar. 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth III. ix. 153 Hounds yelled in their couples. < as lemmas |
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