英语词汇“cross、legged”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

cross-legged

释义

cross-legged, ppl. a.|ˈkrɒsˌlɛgd, ˈkrɔːs-|
[cross- 11.]
Having the legs crossed (usually of a person in a sitting posture).
c1530Ld. Berners Arth. Lyt. Bryt. (1814) 252 Some sytting before their owne dores, croslegged.1697W. Dampier Voy. (1698) I. xii. 329 They use no Chairs, but sit cross-legg'd like Taylors on the floor.1867Whittier Tent on Beach xiv, In the tent-shade..[He] Smoked, cross-legged like a Turk, in Oriental calm.
b. Having one leg laid across the other.
1631Weever Anc. Fun. Mon. 274 An armed knight crosse legged is to bee seene.1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) IV. 207 Bishops in cumbent attitudes and cross-legged templars.1850Cooper Hist. Winchelsea 132 Canopied tombs of cross-legged secular warriors.
In this sense sometimes ˈcrossed-legged.
1845G. A. Poole Churches xii. 118 note, All these figures of crossed-legged persons have been popularly referred to Templars.1864Boutell Heraldry ix. 54 The shield of a crossed-legged knight in the Temple Church.
Hence cross-leggedness, nonce-wd.
1852G. W. Curtis Wand. Syria 236 He naturally fell into the cross-leggedness of oriental sitting.

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