| 单词 |
fostress |
| 释义 |
▪ I. fostress1|ˈfɒstrɪs|
Also 7 fost(e)resse.
[fem. of fosterer: see -ess.]
A female who fosters, in the senses of the vb.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 161 That hope..the nurse and fostresse of old age. 1611Heywood Gold. Age iv. i. Wks. 1874 III. 54 Great Athens The nurse and fostresse of my infancy. a1637B. Jonson Sp. at Pr. Henry's Barriers Wks. (Rtldg.) 578/1 Glory of knights..Come forth; your fostresse bids! who from your birth Hath bred you to this hour. 1648Hexham, Een Mamme..a Nurse, a Fosteresse, or a Foster-Mother. 1883Swinburne Century of Roundels, In Guernsey, My mother sea, my fostress. 1891― Eton: an Ode in Athenæum 30 May 700/1 With England Eton her child kept pace as a fostress of men to be.
appositively.1882Swinburne Tristram of Lyonesse, Athens 176 Woven about the fragrant forehead of the fostress maiden's town.
▪ II. † ˈfostress2 Obs.
In 6 Sc. fostaress.
[f. foster n.3+ -ess.]
= forestress.
1501Douglas Pal. Hon. i. xxiii, Sine ladyis come with lustie giltin tressis, In habit wilde maist like till fostaressis. |
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