英语词汇“milkmaid”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

milkmaid

释义

ˈmilkmaid
[f. milk n.¹ + maid.]
1. A woman that milks or is employed in a dairy.
1552Huloet, Mylker or mylke mayde.1570Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) 2294/2 Elizabeth..hearyng..a certeine milke⁓mayde singing pleasauntly, wished her self to be a milke⁓mayde as she was.1697Dryden Virg. Past. iii. 153 In vain the Milk-maid tugs an empty Teat.1768Beattie Minstr. i. xxxix, Crown'd with her pail the tripping milk⁓maid sings.1849James Woodman ii, Barons' heirs would be marrying milkmaids.
Comb.c1860Patmore in B. Champneys Mem. (1900) I. x. §5. 141 So splendid a beauty with so milkmaid-like an absence of pretension.
2. Local or book name of several plants (see quots.).
1853Naturalist III. 225 Ilex aquifolium albo-pictum, White-spotted-leaved Common Holly; known also by the name of Milkmaid.1886Britten & Holland Plant-n. 335 Milk Maid, or Milk Maids (1) Cardamine pratensis,..(2) Stellaria Holostea,..(3) Lotus corniculatus,..(4) The flowers of Convolvulus sepium,..(5) Primula vulgaris, L. var. (the ‘oxlip’).1887F. Francis Saddle & Mocassin 88 Myriads of daisies and ‘milkmaids’ powder it [the grass] with snowy flakes.

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