英语词汇“thistle、down”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

thistle-down

释义

thistle-down|ˈθɪs(ə)ldaʊn|
[f. thistle n. + down n.²]
The down or pappus which crowns the ‘seeds’ or achenes of the thistle, and by means of which they are carried along by the wind: either collectively, or that of a single ‘seed’.
1561[see c].1585Higins Junius' Nomencl. 112/1 Pappus, the downe of flowers which the wind bloweth about: as thistle downe.1591Spenser M. Hubberd 634 As a thistle-downe in th' ayre doth flie.1723Mandeville Fab. Bees 277 If it were a hard Winter, they mingled some Thistle down with their Rushes to keep them warm.1879Jefferies Wild Life in S. Co. 206 Thistledown is sometimes gathered to fill pillow-cases.1894Miss F. Willard in Chicago Advance 4 Oct., One sees a thistledown borne on the breeze.
b. As a type of lightness, flimsiness, or instability; hence fig.
1868W. Cory Lett. & Jrnls. (1897) 251 The thistle-down of sentiment hung about me all the time.1904R. Hichens Gard. Allah x, Forgive my malice... It was really a thing of thistledown.1908Outlook 27 Nov. 880/1 That is not to say that Christianity is to be a thistledown to be blown hither and thither at the breath of every fad and whim.
c. attrib. Of or like thistle-down (lit. and fig.).
1561Will M. Langrygge (Somerset Ho.), Thesseldowne bed.1889John Bull 2 Mar. 149/3 The train was of thistle⁓down brocade, that being the design brocaded, or rather embossed, upon the snowy surface of the silk.1897Westm. Gaz. 12 Feb. 2/1 The thistle-down character of Miss Hart.

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