英语词汇“motley”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

motley

/ˈmɒtli

adjective (motlier, motliest)

1Incongruously varied in appearance or character; disparate: a motley crew of discontents and zealots...

Dozens of giant steel animals will be pulled through the streets by a motley crew of characters.
It's definitely a ‘local's local’, with a motley crew of characters young and old.
Set in medieval Asia, it follows a motley crew of diplomats, soldiers and slaves from the kingdom of Koryo as they are rejected and exiled by China's ascendant Ming lords.

Synonyms

miscellaneous, disparate, diverse, assorted, sundry, varied, mixed, diversified, heterogeneous

2 archaic (Of clothing) made up of a variety of colours: they wore the motley coat of jesters...

The ceremony was boring other than seeing faculty and the bishop dressed in their finest motley garments.

Synonyms

multicoloured, many-coloured, multicolour, colourful, particoloured, many-hued, variegated, harlequin, kaleidoscopic, rainbow, psychedelic, prismatic, polychromatic

informal (looking) like an explosion in a paint factory

noun

1 [usually in singular] An incongruous mixture: a motley of interacting interest groups...

Michael's first album ‘Missing You’ features an odd motley of styles carefully woven together and united by a great singing voice.
At the first shop Pam and I settle for a motley of 50s cutlery and kitchen tools.
Within the walls of the keep were a motley of low, stone buildings that housed the garrison, supplies, and mounts of the soldiers, engineers and tradesmen that made up the residents of the fortress.

2 [mass noun] historical The multicoloured costume of a jester: life-size mannequins in full motley...

He is remarkable only for wearing his hair like a fool - literally looking like some doleful court jester in black and white motley with a fright-wig hairdo.
When the Duchess of Newcastle appears in public in outlandish attire or publishes her original views on women's position in society, she is not dressed in motley.
Clad in red, yellow, and green motley, he smirks at us through his fingers in the traditional gesture of one who ‘looks the other way’ in the face of wrongdoing.

Origin

Late Middle English: of unknown origin; perhaps ultimately related to mote.

The word motley originally described a fabric woven from different-coloured threads, and was later extended to refer to the multicoloured costume traditionally worn by a court jester. To wear motley is to play the fool, and a motley fool is a professional jester. On with the motley is a quote from the English translation of Leoncavello's 1892 opera Pagliacci, about the real-life troubles of a group of comic actors, while motley crew was in use of a mixed bunch of sailors by the mid 18th century. Mottle was formed in the late 18th century from motley.

单词	motley
释义	motley /ˈmɒtli / adjective (motlier, motliest) 1Incongruously varied in appearance or character; disparate: a motley crew of discontents and zealots... Dozens of giant steel animals will be pulled through the streets by a motley crew of characters. It's definitely a ‘local's local’, with a motley crew of characters young and old. Set in medieval Asia, it follows a motley crew of diplomats, soldiers and slaves from the kingdom of Koryo as they are rejected and exiled by China's ascendant Ming lords. Synonyms miscellaneous, disparate, diverse, assorted, sundry, varied, mixed, diversified, heterogeneous 2 archaic (Of clothing) made up of a variety of colours: they wore the motley coat of jesters... The ceremony was boring other than seeing faculty and the bishop dressed in their finest motley garments. Synonyms multicoloured, many-coloured, multicolour, colourful, particoloured, many-hued, variegated, harlequin, kaleidoscopic, rainbow, psychedelic, prismatic, polychromatic informal (looking) like an explosion in a paint factory noun 1 [usually in singular] An incongruous mixture: a motley of interacting interest groups... Michael's first album ‘Missing You’ features an odd motley of styles carefully woven together and united by a great singing voice. At the first shop Pam and I settle for a motley of 50s cutlery and kitchen tools. Within the walls of the keep were a motley of low, stone buildings that housed the garrison, supplies, and mounts of the soldiers, engineers and tradesmen that made up the residents of the fortress. 2 [mass noun] historical The multicoloured costume of a jester: life-size mannequins in full motley... He is remarkable only for wearing his hair like a fool - literally looking like some doleful court jester in black and white motley with a fright-wig hairdo. When the Duchess of Newcastle appears in public in outlandish attire or publishes her original views on women's position in society, she is not dressed in motley. Clad in red, yellow, and green motley, he smirks at us through his fingers in the traditional gesture of one who ‘looks the other way’ in the face of wrongdoing. Origin Late Middle English: of unknown origin; perhaps ultimately related to mote. The word motley originally described a fabric woven from different-coloured threads, and was later extended to refer to the multicoloured costume traditionally worn by a court jester. To wear motley is to play the fool, and a motley fool is a professional jester. On with the motley is a quote from the English translation of Leoncavello's 1892 opera Pagliacci, about the real-life troubles of a group of comic actors, while motley crew was in use of a mixed bunch of sailors by the mid 18th century. Mottle was formed in the late 18th century from motley. Rhymes hotly
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