单词 | white-limed |
释义 | white-limedadj. 1. That has been painted or rendered with white lime (white lime n. 1). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > painting or coating materials > [adjective] > painted with whitewash whitedOE white-limed1440 whitewashed1744 Snowcemmed1969 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 525 Whytlymyd [?a1475 Winch. Whyte lymyd], calcificatus. 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Calcatus, pergetted or whyte lymed. 1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus iv. ii. 97 Yee..shallow harted boies, Yee whitelimde [1623 white-limb'd] walles. View more context for this quotation 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. i. 7 As white-limedhouses [sic] exceed those which are only rough-cast. 1768 Woman of Honor III. xxviii. 24 The most wretched employ of scribbling in a white-limed garret, by the light of a farthing candle. 1803 J. Davis Trav. U.S.A. x. 438 May our wives soon receive us in a white-limed chamber. 1883 Bristol Mercury 26 Nov. 6/1 Entering the white-limed passage of a house in an adjoining street we pass through to the back. 1948 Musical Q. 34 359 The great house of white-limed brick with its five stacks of chimneys. 2006 Irish Times (Nexis) 18 Mar. (Weekend section) 9 Narrow streets of white-limed houses. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > [adjective] > having or given specious appearance paintedc1390 daubedc1400 cloakeda1500 fucate1531 fucated1535 coloured1537 flim-flam1577 tinsel1595 varnisheda1616 punkish1616 white-limeda1631 pargeted1645 tinselled1651 vizarded1663 lacquered1687 glossy1698 catchpenny1705 catch-shilling1808 tinselly1811 whitewashed1859 shoddy1882 veneered1884 hollowed-out1890 face-lifted1941 suede shoe1952 cosmetic1955 a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1953) VI. 138 If we be not onely Dealbati Christiani, (as S. Augustine speaks) White-lim'd Christians, Christians on the out-side. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1440 |
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