单词 | woman-flesh |
释义 | > as lemmaswoman-flesh a. General attributive, as woman-flesh, woman-haunt, woman nature, etc. Π 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 29 The woman sexe is no lesse apte to learne al maner thynges then menne are. 1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 104 Woman modestie kept her silent. 1631 T. Heywood Fair Maid of West: 1st Pt. iii. 31 In this woman shape Ile cudgell thee. a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Prophetesse iii. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Eeee3/1 You'll find it but a woman-fit to try ye. 1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xix. 82 Into the woman-state asquint to pry. 1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake v. 231 The only man, in whom a foe My woman-mercy would not know. 1846 Mrs. Carlyle in Jane Welsh Carlyle (1924) 278 What a contrast I often think betwixt that woman and Geraldine! the opposite poles of woman-nature! 1880 G. Meredith Tragic Comedians II. v. 83 Exactly what his appreciation, in womanflesh, would lead him to fix on. 1895 Catholic Mag. Dec. 453 Her shrewd woman-wit. 1897 ‘H. S. Merriman’ In Kedar's Tents xxvi. (heading) Womancraft. 1915 D. H. Lawrence Rainbow iii. 81 He must get out of this oppressive, shut-down, woman-haunt. 1946 D. Thomas Deaths & Entrances 40 The next-door sea dispelled Frogs and satans and woman-luck. 1971 V. Canning Firecrest vi. 83 He put his arm round her shoulder..and felt through silk the warmth and firmness of woman flesh. 1991 T. Spanbauer Man who fell in Love with Moon i. 70 Always smelled of roses..—roses mixed with woman smell. < as lemmas |
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