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单词 sangrail
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sangrailn.

Brit. /saŋˈɡreɪl/, U.S. /sæŋˈɡreɪl/
Forms: In Middle English sangrayle, sangrayll(e, seynt graal, 1600s–1800s sangreal, 1800s sangreall.
Etymology: < Old French Saint Graal ‘Holy Grail’: see saint adj. and grail n.2The pseudo-etymological form sang roial (confusing the word with sang royal n. 2) appears in Anglo-Norman of the 15th cent.: see Godefroy Compl. s.v. sanc. Another spurious etymology formerly common appears in the following quot.:1685 E. Stillingfleet Origines Britannicæ i. 13 Others think that the word was Sangreal, being some of Christ's real blood..said to be somewhere found by King Arthur.
1. = grail n.2
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the Grailc1330
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a1450 Le Morte Arth. 10 The knights of the table Round, The sangrayle when they had sought.
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur ii. xi. 88 Soone after the aduentures of the Sangrayll shalle come among yow and be encheued.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin ii. 32 Thi boke shalbe cleped.., the boke of the seynt Graal.
1808 W. Scott Marmion i. Introd. 17 He took the Sangreal's holy quest.
1871 G. Meredith Harry Richmond II. xii. 145 They bear the veiled sun like a sangreal aloft to the wavy marble flooring of stainless cloud.
2. The book of the Grail. Obsolete.
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the Grailc1330
sangrail1470
saga1709
Mahabharata1768
nancy storya1818
Anansi tale1856
Anansi story1873
immram1895
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur ii. xiii. 91 As it telleth after in the sangraylle.
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