“ragged robin”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

ragged robin

释义

ragged robin
[See robin.]
One of the popular names of a well-known English flower, Lychnis Floscuculi. Also attrib.
1741Compl. Fam.-Piece ii. iii. 401 Lychnis Coronaria, Spiderwort, ragged Robbin.1777[see cuckoo-flower].1821Clare Vill. Minstr. II. 133 The ragged-robins by the spinney lake.1872Black Adv. Phaeton II. xx. 92 The viscid petals of the Ragged Robin glimmered a bright crimson.1875Ruskin Fors Clav. V. 279, I have been quietly drawing ragged-robin leaves.
b. transf. A ragged person.
1826Scott Woodst. ii, I took thee up when thou wert but a ragged Robin, made a keeper of thee and so forth.1859Tennyson Geraint 724 The Prince Hath pick'd a ragged-robin from the hedge, And..brought her to the court.

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