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单词 well-trussed-up
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well-trussed-up
2. Securely bound or tied up; (also) wearing tight or restrictive clothing. Also well-trussed-up.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [adjective] > collecting in a bundle > made into bundles
well-trussed1606
bundled1796
fascicular1866
1606 J. Finet tr. R. de Lucinge Beginning, Continuance, & Decay Estates v. 28 This dependance shall be better ordered if the Generall can content himselfe with small store of luggage and that well trussed vp.
1633 G. Herbert Church Porch in Temple xxiv Man is a shop of rules, a well truss'd pack, Whose every parcell under-writes a law.
1721 J. Trenchard & T. Gordon Coll. Cato's Polit. Lett. in London Jrnl 27 A thousand Stock-Jobbers, well truss'd up,..would be a cheap Sacrifice to the Manes of Trade.
1826 Spirit Eng. Mag. 15 June 244/2 His quilted doublet of slashed damask, his jagged hosen, and well trussed-points.
1881 London Society Christmas 48/2 He merely looked his admiration, and did not take hold of the well-trussed bird.
1907 H. Garland Money Magic xxi. 248 I feel as well trussed as me lady's footman.
1957 S. Hughes Famous Mozart Operas 122 Zerlina abandons a thoroughly well-trussed-up Leporello and gaily leaves the scene.
1991 Observer (Nexis) 3 Feb. 60 A 100ft elevator..which creaks up and down with the old-fashioned efficiency of a well-trussed matron.
2004 L. Davis Scandal takes Holiday (2006) xxiii. 122 A large mullet was sitting..with its tail lolling up against a well-trussed bag of leeks.
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