单词 | albestone |
释义 | † albeston(e Obs. [a. OFr. albeston, variant of abeston, asbeston, a. L. asbeston, acc. of asbestos, q.v. (OFr. has also abestos). Albeston is perhaps due to fanciful association with alb-us white; in Eng. the termination was assimilated to stone, quasi ‘white-stone.’] = asbestos.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvi. xi. (1495) 558 Of albestone..was made a candyll sticke, on whyche was a lantern so brennynge that it myght not be quenched wyth tempeste nother with reyne. 1567J. Maplet Greene Forest 2 Albeston..being once set on fire, can neuer after be quenched. |

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