单词 | well-vowelled |
释义 | > as lemmaswell-vowelled a. Of language or words: Supplied or provided with vowels, esp. to an unusual extent. Also with qualifying term, as well-vowelled. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > vowel > [adjective] > having > many vowelled1664 vowelly1712 vocalic1814 1664 J. Playford Brief Introd. Skill Musick (ed. 4) i. 76 The Italian Language is more smooth and better vowell'd then the English. 1684 J. Dryden in Earl of Roscommon Ess. Translated Verse sig. A1 Pauses, cadence, and well vowell'd Words. 1792 A. Seward Lett. (1811) III. 142 My own exquisitely rich and harmonious language; the growing Latinity of which has already..rendered it sufficiently vowelled, sufficiently sweet, copious, and sonorous. 1820 J. Keats Lamia ii, in Lamia & Other Poems 39 While fluent Greek a vowel'd under-song Kept up. 1860 F. W. Farrar Ess. Origin Lang. 67 The soft and vowelled undersong of modern Italian. 1869 G. Meredith Lett. 19 Dec. (1912) I. 198 Isn't there a scent of damned hypocrisy in all this lisping and vowelled purity of the Idylls? 1883 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 431/2 By melodious juxtaposition, by artful alliteration, by vowelled breathings and consonantal crashes of harmony. < as lemmas |
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