单词 | plain dunstable |
释义 | > as lemmasplain (later also downright) Dunstable ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > plain or straightforward language plain Englisha1438 plain languagec1450 yeomanryc1500 plain (later also downright) Dunstable1578 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > plainness > [noun] > plain language plain Englisha1438 plain (later also downright) Dunstable1578 straight talk1894 outspeech1919 1578 J. Walsall Serm. preached at Pauls Crosse iii. sig. D.viv We cannot, say they, away with his newe doctrine,..all is new plaine Dunstable, the seruice is in the vulgare toung, euerie bodie may vnderstand it. 1650 Man in Moon No. 39. 307 I scorne to shew you as your Pulpit Journey-men doe, but must tell you in plaine down-right Dunstable, That never a Rebell of you all doth believe there is a God. 1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd (ed. 2) II. iv. 87 Their Fore-Fathers..lov'd plain downright Dunstable. 1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. xxxii. 215 That's the plain Dunstable of the matter, Miss! 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet III. iv. 116 If this is not plain speaking, there is no such place as downright Dunstable in being! 1928 V. Woolf Orlando iv. 218 The plain Dunstable of the matter is, that I'm not in the mood for the society of the other sex to-night. plain Dunstable < as lemmas |
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