英语词汇“high、low”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

high-low

释义

high-low|ˈhaɪləʊ|
[f. high a. + low a.; in contrast to ‘top’ boots and ‘low’ shoes respectively.]
(Usually pl.) A boot laced or otherwise fastened up in front and reaching up over the ankle.
1801Bloomfield Rural T. (1802) 8, I won the High-lows out and out.a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Highlows, a covering for the foot and ancle, too high to be called a shoe, and too low for a boot.1830Cobbett Rur. Rides I. 73 From the sole six inches upwards is a high-low.1851Ann. Reg. 38 He was lacing up his high-lows in the washhouse.
attrib.1836Marryat Japhet xxxix, He was dressed in highlow boots, worsted stockings.1858O. W. Holmes Aut. Breakf.-t. 185 The dandies..have split their waistbands and taken to high-low shoes.
Hence ˈhigh-lowed a., wearing high-lows: cf. high-shod.
1839John Bull 28 July in Spirit Metrop. Conserv. Press (1840) II. 251 The high-lowed ploughboy of Yorkshire.

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