| 单词 | priest's cap |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspriest's cap priest's cap n. (also priest cap) (a) a cap worn by a priest; (b) Fortification an outwork with three salient and two re-entrant angles. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > outwork > angular outworks priest's cap1446 priest's bonnet1685 swallowtail1688 flèche1710 arrow1747 1446 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1865) III. 102 (MED) De vj preste caps, syngle, ij s. De ij preste caps, duplicibus, xviij d. 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Bonnet à Prestre, or the Priest's Cap, in Fortification, is an Out-work having at the Head three Saliant Angles, and two Inwards. 1887 R. B. Irwin in Battles & Leaders Civ. War III. 595 Paine attacked..at..the strongest point of the whole work, the priest-cap near the Jackson road. 1945 French Rev. 18 150 At times English uses the French phrase unchanged as well as an Anglicization..Bonnet de prêtre (a term for fortification) or priestcap or priest's cap. 1998 Northern Echo (Nexis) 1 Aug. 10 Fr Daley enters for his penultimate Sunday mass wearing a biretta, the once familiar priest's cap. < as lemmas |
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