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单词 spire-straight
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spire-straight
C2. With past participles or adjectives (chiefly instrumental and similative), as spire-adorned, spire-crowned, spire-shaped, spire-topped adjs.; spire-like, spire-straight adjs.
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1804 J. Grahame Sabbath 29 He toil'd up the spire-topt hill.
1840 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 3 32/1 This..is covered by a very steep, or spire-shaped roof.
1879 W. Carleton Farm Ballads (new ed.) 87 The turreted, spire-adorned city.
1885 E. P. Warren & C. F. M. Cleverly Wanderings ‘Beetle’ 56 The famous Roche à Bayard, rising almost sheer from the river, soars to its spire-like peak.
1893 Daily News 27 Apr. 5/5 Each corner is adorned with a spire-crowned pavilion.
1933 C. Day Lewis Magnetic Mountain 26 There, as a candle's beam Stands firm and will not waver Spire-straight in a close chamber.
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