| 单词 | vantage-loaf |
| 释义 | > as lemmasvantage-loaf attributive, as (sense 2b) †vantage-loaf; (sense 3) vantage-coign, vantage-ditch, vantage-nook, vantage-place, vantage-point; (sense 6) vantage-game, vantage-set. Also vantage-ground n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > [noun] > advantage over another > a position of advantage higher ground1583 vantage-ground1612 coign of vantagea1616 high ground1800 place, point (etc.) of vantage1805–6 vantage-coign1808 inside track1857 vantage-placea1861 vantage-pointa1861 pole position1888 vantage1908 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > lawn tennis > [noun] > types of game sudden death1834 matchplay1877 vantage-set1892 double1894 softball1914 breaker1979 challenger1990 1612 in Plomer Abstracts fr. Wills of Eng. Printers (1903) 45 To twelve Poore people..one penny loafe and Twoe pence a peece and the vauntage loafe to the Clerke there. 1808 W. Scott Marmion vi. ii. 317 Bulwark,..bastion, tower, and vantage-coign. 1859 J. H. Ingraham Pillar of Fire i. xix. 322 Terraces, house-tops,—every vantage-point—were crowded thickly with spectators. a1861 A. H. Clough Poems & Prose Remains (1869) II. 78 Quick seizure and fast unrelaxing hold of vantage-place. 1885 J. H. Dell Dawning Grey Prefatory Some last vantage-ditch of wrong. 1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 7 July 6/3 The Londoners equalized and made another ‘vantage’ set necessary. 1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 7 July 6/3 The Irishmen gained the ‘vantage’ game every time. 1930 E. Blunden Summer's Fancy 30 The many vantage-nooks That nature sets about the wooing weald. < as lemmas |
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