英语词汇“bald、pate”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

bald-pate

释义

bald-pate
[f. bald a.]
a. One who has a bald head; transf. an American widgeon (Anas americana or Mareca americana), and a variety of pigeon.
1601Dent Pathw. Heaven 131 Mocked Elisha..calling him bald-head, bald-pate.1813A. Wilson Amer. Ornith. VIII. 86 The..widgeons, or as they are called round the bay, bald pates.1838Audubon Ornith. Biog. IV. 337 In the Western Country, and in most parts of the Eastern and Middle States, it is called the Bald Pate.1865E. Noel Richter's Flower Pieces (1871) I. v. 141 But had solicited the bald-pates in vain.1883Century Mag. XXVI. 925 Mallard, baldpate, and wood-duck.1907Westm. Gaz. 25 Nov. 8/3 The ‘bald-pate’, as it is familiarly called, is a gregarious bird, frequenting the North American estuaries.
b. attrib. quasi-adj. = bald a. (in various senses).
1578Lyte Dodoens 405 Osmunde baldepate or Pylde Osmunde.c1590Marlowe Faust. vii. 48 A troop of Bald⁓pate friars.1683Soame & Dryden Art of Poetry (T.) Nor perriwig with snow the baldpate woods.1827Montgomery Pelican Isl. ii. 244 Swarms..Cover'd the bald-pate reef.

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