单词 | swartness |
释义 | swartnessn. The quality of being swart; swarthiness, duskiness. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > quality of colour > [noun] > shade or tone > darkness swartnessa1100 darknessa1398 sable?a1513 swarthness?1527 darksomeness1571 swarthiness1577 swartha1661 a1100 Aldhelm Glosses i. 4681 in A. S. Napier Old Eng. Glosses (1900) 121/1 Nigredine, sweartnysse. a1395 W. Hylton Scala Perfeccionis (1494) ii. xii The swartnesse [1533 blackenes] that I haue is all wythoute. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 278/1 Swartnesse, estalleure. 1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke iii. xix. 105 It chaunceth sometime the face to be made verie red..but this colour turneth againe into swartnesse. 1584 B. R. tr. Herodotus Famous Hyst. ii. f. 75 The blacknesse and swartnesse of the people. 1823 W. Scott Peveril III. iii. 71 She..denounced the plague of swartness to the linen—of leanness to the poultry—of dearth and dishonour to the house-keeping. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < n.a1100 |
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