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单词 zimme
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zimmen.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: English ȝimme , gem n.1
Etymology: Erroneously < Middle English ȝimme, variant of gem n.1, with misreading of ȝ as z (see the discussion at Z n.).Probably understood by Bulwer-Lytton to be Old English, as he only employs the word in historical use in a work set in pre-Conquest England.
Obsolete. pseudo-archaic.
A jewel, a gem.Apparently only in the works of Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
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1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold I. ii. iii. 135 Taking from his own neck a collar of zimmes..of great price.
1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold I. iii. ii. 147 His diadem, with the three zimmes shaped into a triple trefoil.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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