| 单词 | white as whale's bone |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhite as whale's bone ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Pinnipedia (seal, sea lion, or walrus) > [noun] > parts of whalebonec1275 flipper1822 snotter1832 the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > [adjective] > pure white > as ivory or bone white as whale's bonec1275 ivorya1586 ivory-white1595 eburnean1656 eburnine1822 bone-coloured1837 bone-white1850 ivorine1888 ivoried1890 c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1182 Þe walles of stone þe duren of whales bone [c1300 Otho wales bone]. a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 40 A wayle whyt ase whalles bon. a1400 Sqr. lowe Degre 537 Lady, as whyte as whales bone. c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 212 Her ble more blaȝt þen whallez bon. 1467 T. Daverse in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 379 But yef ye purposed to falle hastely in my Lady Anne P. lappe, as white as whales bon, &c. 1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell sig. B.iijv An hundred steppis mountyng to the halle One of iasper a nother of whalis bone. 1567 G. Turberville Epitaphes, Epigrams f. 138 Hir Mouth so small, hir Teeth so white as any Whale his bone. 1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late ii. sig. I4 Legges as white as whales bone. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 332 This is the floure that smyles on euery one. To shew his teeth as white as Whales bone. 1610 R. Tofte tr. N. de Montreux Honours Acad. iv. 162 Her hands were white, as Whale his bone. 1848 C. Kingsley Saint's Trag. iii. i. 150 Purer than white whales' bone. < as lemmas |
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