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单词 white spur
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white spur
white spur n. Obsolete (historical in later use) (the title of) a class of esquires who wear silvered spurs.
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1600 W. Camden Britannia (new ed.) 140 Rex..armigeros creat collum torque S.S. vel sigmatico argenteo, & candidis, & argentatis calcaribus exornans, vnde hodiè in occidentalibus regni partibus vocantur Whitespurres ad discrimen Equitum auratorum qui auratis calcaribus vti solent.
1799 P. Yorke Royal Tribes Wales 10 He was an Esquire by creation, which was the fourth class of Esquires, called white spurs.
1867 Paroch. Hist. Cornwall I. 4 Formerly the lands of Winslade of Tregarrick, in Pelynt, an hereditary esquire of the white spur.
extracted from whiteadj.adv.n.
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