英语词汇“quail fight”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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quail fight

quail fight n.

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1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xviii. 78 Cokfights and quailefightes.

1770 T. Smollett et al. tr. Voltaire Wks. XXV. 116 All the wars that men have since entered into, have only been cock and quail fights.

1855 Harper's Mag. Dec. 104/2 The King yawned when she sang, and interrupted her dancing by ordering a quail-fight.

1961 A. Hosain Sunlight on Broken Column i. xvi. 92 Those days are gone when Nawabs lost their fortunes in cock-fights and quail-fights.

2003 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 3 Aug. a1 Mr. Ophir set up a round-robin tournament of quail fights, using birds from a poultry farm in Vineland.

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单词	quail fight
释义	> as lemmas quail fight quail fight n. ΚΠ 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xviii. 78 Cokfights and quailefightes. 1770 T. Smollett et al. tr. Voltaire Wks. XXV. 116 All the wars that men have since entered into, have only been cock and quail fights. 1855 Harper's Mag. Dec. 104/2 The King yawned when she sang, and interrupted her dancing by ordering a quail-fight. 1961 A. Hosain Sunlight on Broken Column i. xvi. 92 Those days are gone when Nawabs lost their fortunes in cock-fights and quail-fights. 2003 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 3 Aug. a1 Mr. Ophir set up a round-robin tournament of quail fights, using birds from a poultry farm in Vineland. extracted from quailn. < as lemmas
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