单词 | birth roll |
释义 | > as lemmasbirth roll birth roll n. a register of people born in a particular place; (also) a written genealogy of a particular person.In quot. 1848 in figurative context. ΚΠ 1848 Reynolds's Misc. 29 July 41/3 La Fayette proved a hero of devotion—he acquired the friendship of Washington—he inscribed the name of a Frenchman on the birth roll of that transatlantic nation. 1888 Gentleman's Mag. 265 23 Absolute oblivion appears to enshroud every particular connected with his ancestry: there exists no birth-roll recording the names of a long line of his progenitors. 2012 Cancer Causes & Control 23 1567/1 We randomly selected 209,051 controls from California birth rolls. < as lemmas |
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