| 释义 |
unˈplumed, a.
[un-1 8. Cf. Du. ongepluimd.]
Not furnished with plumes or feathers.
[1598Florio, Spennato, vnfeathered vnplumed.] 1601Holland Pliny I. 338 They will..kill young pigeons whiles they be calow and unplumed. 1638Davenant Madagascar 3 Their Arrowes were unplum'd, Their Bowes unstrung. 1777Potter æschylus, Agamemnon 217 Like vulturs, which, their unplumed offspring lost, Whirl many a rapid flight. 1804Europ. Mag. XLV. 413/2 Whether it was..plain or coloured, plumed or unplumed, covered or uncovered. 1871H. King Ovid's Met. vi. 946 Not with their birth Those pinions came;..young Calaïs And Zethes grew unplumed.
fig.1818Milman Samor vii. 267 Had it seem'd love, her very pride had quell'd The unplum'd phantasy. |
