单词 | rare bird |
释义 | > as lemmasrare bird rare bird n. = rara avis n. 1a, 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or extraordinary > [noun] > rareness > person rare bird1553 rara avis1607 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or extraordinary > [noun] > rareness > something very rare rare1566 rariety1566 black swan?1570 rarity1592 hen's milk1601 white Negro1631 rara avis1651 (one) in a million1685 collector's or collectors' item1910 lightning in a bottle1941 rare bird1962 1532 R. Whitford Pype or Tonne f. 206r Selden doth synguler beute and pure chastite: dwel and peasebly agre together in one persone. And therfore is chastite called a byrd rare.] 1553 tr. Erasmus Epist. Perswade Young Ientleman Mariage in T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique f. 32 A good woman (you will saie) is a rare birde [L. rara..avis], & harde to be founde in all the worlde. 1592 G. Harvey Foure Lett. (new ed.) iii. 16 Wondrous wittes are rare birdes. 1659 Maze 15 Honest men, Huntington! Those be rare Birds. 1776 E. Griffiths tr. P. A. C. de Beaumarchais Barber Seville i. iv. 9 In Faith, a rare Bird! and very hard to come at, but who told you she is the Doctor's Wife? 1890 G. B. Shaw in Star 21 Feb. 2/5 She [sc. the perfect dancer] is the rarest of rare birds. 1962 Which? Car Suppl. Oct. 141/1 The foreign cars are still somewhat rare birds. 2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 23 July 31/1 He was that rare bird, the scholar-publisher to whom its lovers and practitioners are indebted for books. < as lemmas |
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