| 单词 |
cuerpo |
| 释义 |
‖ cuerpo Obs.
Forms: 7 cuerpo, quirpo, 7–8 querpo.
[Sp. cuerpo body:—L. corpus.]
1. Only in phrase in cuerpo: without the cloak or upper garment, so as to show the shape of the body; in undress; also fig.; sometimes humorously, without clothing, naked.
a1625Fletcher Love's Cure ii. i, Boy: my Cloake and Rapier; it fits not a Gentleman of my ranck to walk the streets in Querpo. 1654H. L'Estrange Chas. I (1655) 72 Out came the Lieutenant with his suit of Gallants, all armed in cuerpo. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. II. 556 He..under-valued his office by going in quirpo like a young Scholar. 1740Warburton Div. Legat. v. Wks. V. 217 He..strips Moses of his mission and leaves him to cool, in querpo, under his civil character. 1748Smollett Rod. Rand. x, The drummer, who had given his only shirt to be washed, appeared in cuerpo.
2. attrib. and Comb.
1644–7Cleveland Char. Lond. Diurn. 3 A zealous Botcher in Morefields..contriving some Quirpo-cut of Church-Government. 1741Richardson Pamela lxxxiv, These smart, well-dressing, querpo fellows. |
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