单词 | umbered |
释义 | umberedadj. Stained or painted with umber; made of a dark brown colour; embrowned, darkened. In some quots. the sense ‘shadowed, darkened by shade’ (cf. umber v.1) is possible. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > making or becoming brown > [adjective] > made brown umbereda1616 well-browned1723 embrowned1739 browned1871 a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iv. 0. 9 Fire answers fire, and through their paly flames Each Battaile sees the others vmber'd face. View more context for this quotation a1641 T. Heywood Captives (1953) ii. iii. 50 Ffayre ffresh and cleane they boathe appeare and not lyk gypsy vmberd. 1716 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad II. viii. 706 Full fifty Guards each flaming Pile attend, Whose umber'd Arms, by fits, thick Flashes send. 1805–6 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Inferno iii. 110 Thus go they over through the umber'd wave. 1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain i. x. 28 Amid whose yawning gulfs the sun Cast umbered radiance red and dun. 1860 O. W. Holmes Elsie Venner (1891) xi. 154 The bistred or umbered beauties of mingled blood among whom he had been living. 1877 W. H. Mallock New Republic II. v. i. 232 A circular domed temple of umbred marble. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1616 |
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