单词 | tinfoiled |
释义 | > as lemmasˈtinfoiled ˈtinfoiled adj. /-fɔɪld/ esp. figurative. ΚΠ 1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor i. ii. sig. C A man so grac'd, guilded, or rather (to vse a more fit Metaphor) tinfoyld by nature. View more context for this quotation 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. iii. iii. 399 T'is bracteata fælicitas, as Seneca termes it, tin-foyl'd happines if it be happines at all. a1658 J. Cleveland Hecatomb 9 My Text defeats your Art, ties Nature's tongue, Scorns all her Tinfoyl'd Metaphors of Pelf. < as lemmas |
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