英语词汇“loerie”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

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loerie

释义

loerie S. Afr.|ˈlʊrɪ|
Also loorie, lourie.
[Afrikaans, f. Du. lori lory.]
= touraco.
1798A. Barnard Jrnl. in A. W. C. Lindsay Lives of Lindsays (1849) III. 408, I began to collect my Cape trifles for my friends at home,—some beautiful loories alive—some still more beautiful swallows dead.1810W. J. Burchell Jrnl. 7 Dec. in Trav. S. Afr. (1822) I. ii. 20 In the aviary, I saw the Touracoo, called Loeri by the colonists.1812Anne Plumptre Lichtenstein's S. Africa I. 195 The cuculus persa, a beautiful bird, called by the colonists loeri or luri.1850J. S. Christopher Natal 33 The beautiful and soft-voiced loerie, the golden cuckoo, the green pigeon..and many others too numerous to particularise. [1908East London (Cape Province) Dispatch 4 Dec. 4 The vlei-lourie, perhaps better known hereabouts as the ‘rain-bird’, the natives regarding it as a weather prophet.]1932Discovery July 230/2 The Louries, magnificent in green, blue and carmine..nest outside the door of the mission [at Kilimanjaro].1950Cape Argus Mag. 18 Mar. 7/7 Loeries with their beautiful crimson-and-green plumage fill the air with their liquid call.1957V. W. Turner Schism & Continuity in Afr. Soc. x. 293 The woman may dream that her dead relative has appeared to her equipped like a hunter, wearing the red wing-feather of a lourie in her hair.1971Eveing Post (Port Elizabeth, S.A.) Suppl. 12 June 5 When we think of birds in general, it is the pleasanter members of that enormous family that come to mind—the brilliantly-plumaged sunbird, the dove, the loerie.

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