单词 | skin-covered |
释义 | > as lemmasskin-covered C3. Adverbial, as skin-built, skin-clad, skin-covered, skin-spread, etc., adjs. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > [adjective] > covered with skin-covered1897 1684 J. Harington Grecian Story ii. 105 Skin clad, fierce Roaring Boys. 1763 E. Thompson Temple of Venus i. 6 To Sweden, Norway, and the frozen Isles, Nay skin clad Lapland, felt the genial smiles. 1823 J. Baillie in Coll. of Poems 260 Whilst travellers from their skin-spread couches rise. 1846 H. G. Robinson Odes of Horace ii. vi Galesus' tide, Sweet to the skin-clad flocks. 1883 Boats of World 27 Two examples of skin-built canoes. 1897 W. B. Yeats Secret Rose 1 A large house with skin-covered wattles for the assembly. 1919 Mariner's Mirror 5 131 A bidarrah is..a large skin-covered boat, propelled by oars, or used with sails before the wind. 1932 E. A. Powell Undiscovered Europe vii. 187 The Lithuanians were wearing woven garments..when the rest of Europe was inhabited by skin-clad barbarians. 1973 Art Internat. Mar. 76/2 The carnal claim sings for the spirit's skin-contained glory. 2004 Smithsonian Nov. 96/1 Inupiat hunters still build large skin-covered canoes, or umiaks , which enable them to catch seals, walrus and other sea mammals. < as lemmas |
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