英语词汇“deplumation”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

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deplumation

释义

deplumation|diːpl(j)uːˈmeɪʃən|
[a. F. déplumation (Cotgr. 1611), n. of action from déplumer to deplume.]
The action of depluming, or condition of being deplumed: loss of feathers, plumes, or fig. of honours, etc.
(In quot. 1834 humorously for ‘plucking’ in examination.)
1611Cotgr., Deplumation, a deplumation, pluming, vnfeathering.1662R. W[alden] (title), The Deplumation of Mrs. Anne Gibbs, of those furtivous perfections whereof she was supposed a Proprietary.1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacr. iii. iii. §15 (ed. 3) 512 Through the violence of her moulting or deplumation.1827G. S. Faber Sacred Cal. Prophecy (1844) II. 34 Notwithstanding the downfall produced by this deplumation, it [the first Wild-Beast] afterward became erect upon its feet, like a man.1834Oxf. Univ. Mag. I. 289 Lest..we recall to painful remembrance the forgotten miseries of deplumation.
¶ Path. (See quots.)
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Deplumation..in Surgery, a swelling of the Eyelids, accompany'd with the fall of the Hairs from the Eye-brows.1883Syd. Soc. Lex., Deplumation..old term for a disease of the eyelids which causes the eyelashes to fall off (Gr. πτίλωσις).

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