单词 | portalled |
释义 | portalledportaledadj. Chiefly literary. Furnished with or having a portal or portals. Also with prefixed modifying adjective. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [adjective] > having (a) hole(s) > having gates or gateways ported1603 portalled1635 1635 T. Heywood Hierarchie Blessed Angells v. 325 [Nature] hath afforded Man but one Tongue and that portall'd with lips and percullis'd with teeth. 1768 Woodstock in Coll. of Poems II. 166 A portall'd front where niches deep inshrine The marble statue, and the gilded bust. a1801 R. Gall Poems & Songs (1819) 12 Steel-clad vassals wont to wait Their chieftain at the portalled gate. 1870 N. Amer. & U.S. Gaz. 14 Nov. 1/8 The Christmas Godey comes with a title where the open-portaled church in the distance, swallowing many, yet leaves a crowded foreground for traffic in holly and evergreen. 1905 W. H. Hunt Pre-Raphaelitism I. i. 8 New surprises through narrow lanes and portalled walls. 1918 W. M. Kirkland Joys of being Woman xx. 240 To me these brief white-portaled streets of this other Littleville are kindly too. 1998 J. Cope Mod. Antiquarian 402/2 Once the platform was firm, two portalled entrances were made along the long axis of the circle. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1635 |
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