单词 | red-tempered |
释义 | > as lemmasred-tempered red-tempered adj. (a) coloured red; (b) ill-tempered; irascible. ΚΠ c1612 W. Strachey Hist. Trav. Virginia (1953) i. v. 70 A kynd of Arsenick-stone like..redd tempered oyntementes of earth. 1861 Ladies Repository Dec. 725/1 A red-bearded, red-headed, red-faced, red-tempered, hateful-eyed officer, who frightened the servants out of their remaining senses. 1929 F. Hackett Henry VIII ii. 87 Red-tempered as he easily became,..his mouth showed his capacity for cautious repression. 2007 Daily Mail (Nexis) 12 May 38 Stalin was guarded during his exile by a red-bearded, red-tempered policeman named Ivan Laletin. < as lemmas |
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