单词 | yellow-haired |
释义 | yellow-hairedadj. Having yellow hair; having blonde or golden hair. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [adjective] > golden > having yellow-haired1556 golden-headed1789 xanthocomic1861 1556 J. Withals Short Dict. (new ed.) sig. T.iii/2 Yelow heared, flauus. 1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Blond, yellow haired. 1611 E. Aston tr. J. Boemus Manners, Lawes, & Customes iii. xvi. 287 The people..be tall of stature, yellow haird, faire and welfauoured. 1690 London Gaz. No. 2569/4 Edmond Barber, aged about 30, Yellow Hair'd. 1721 A. Ramsay Poems I. 155 A tall Yellow-hair'd young pensive Swain. 1812 Ld. Byron Tambourgi x, in Childe Harold: Cantos I & II ii. 100 Let the yellow-hair'd Giaours view his horse-tail with dread. 1887 H. Caine Son of Hagar I. ii. 47 The yellow-haired elderly gentleman with the perpetual smile. 1917 D. H. Lawrence Look! We have come Through! 155 Scyllas and yellow-haired hellebore, jonquils, dim anemones. 1945 M. Young Angel in Forest xxxiii. 303 She clasped..an emptyheaded, yellow-haired doll in her hands. 2013 S. Nicholls Close your Pretty Eyes 216 Hayley and Jamie were pretty and yellow-haired. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1556 |
随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。