单词 | giantess |
释义 | giantess From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Folkloregiantessgi‧ant‧ess /ˈdʒaɪəntes/ noun [countable]RFan extremely tall strong woman, who is often bad and cruel, in children’s storiesExamples from the Corpusgiantess• Ahead of him the road of cars flexed like a serpent, like the leg of a giantess.• Gozitan legend says that a giantess built the temples single-handed, suckling her baby at the same time.• At its head soared a great fountain on which stood Columbia, a divine giantess, on the Barge of State.• But he had only reached the elbow on which the giantess was supporting herself when a car drew up beside him. |
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