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单词 to make litter of
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to make litter of
a. For human beings. to make litter of (one's life): to sacrifice lavishly (= French faire litière de). Obsolete.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > bedding > [noun] > grass or straw used as
bedstrawc1386
bed-litterc1425
litterc1440
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 307/2 Lytere of a bed, stratus, stratorium.
a1475 Bk. Curtasye (Sloane 1986) l. 435 in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 313 Gromes palettis shyn fyle and make litere.
a1483 Liber Niger in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 41 The groome porter berith wood, strawe, rushes, for the King's chambre, making the King's litters of his bed.
1652 J. Howell tr. A. Giraffi Exact Hist. Late Revol. Naples (new ed.) ii. 119 Whereupon the said Duke offer'd to make litter of his life for the service of his Catholick Majesty the King.
1774 J. Collyer Hist. Eng. II. 126 John Baldwin held the manor of Oterarsee..by the service of finding litter for the king's bed, viz. in summer grass or herbs, and in winter straw.
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