单词 | well-stained |
释义 | well-stainedadj. That has been skilfully, properly, or thoroughly stained (in various senses of the verb). Also: very stained, having many stains. ΚΠ 1738 London Mag. Sept. 459/2 Prime the well-stain'd cloth. 1745 E. Young Consolation 5 The well-stain'd Canvas, or the featur'd Stone? 1808 D. Hughson London V. 346 Two fine Gothic windows, representing, in well stained glass, the following subjects: [etc.]. 1841 J. Bullar & H. Bullar Winter in Azores II. 260 The captain has produced a pack of well-stained cards with the corners worn into semicircles. 1883 Jrnl. Anat. & Physiol. 18 62 In well-stained specimens the synectic tissue is visibly tinted. 1907 W. H. Simmonds Pract. Grocer I. 73 Built of well stained and varnished pine. 1936 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 25 Jan. 151/1 The theca externa..showed up as a well-stained and vascular area. 2008 A. Davidson Gargoyle (2009) x. 150 The hint of her perfume could make him wipe the back of his neck with his well-stained handkerchief. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1738 |
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