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单词 hedgeborn
释义

hedgeborn

English

Etymology

hedge + born

Adjective

hedgeborn (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Born under a hedge or of low birth.
    • 1591, William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene i]:
      Be quite degraded, like a hedge-born swine
  2. (obsolete) growing in a hedge
    • 1869, George Eliot, How Lisa Loved the King
      The trader's child, whose soaring spirit rose
      As hedge-born aloe-flowers that rarest years disclose

References

hedgeborn in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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