“sevenpenny”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

sevenpenny

释义

sevenpenny, a.|ˈsɛv(ə)npənɪ|
[See penny n. 10.]
Costing or valued at sevenpence; hence, † trifling, contemptible. Also as n., a volume that costs sevenpence.
c1380Antecrist in Todd Three Treat. Wyclif (1851) 147 Antecrist makiþ hise [priests] knowen..bi her sevenpeny wedding & haliwater spryngynge.1664J. Webb Stone-Heng (1725) 122 Readers would never be induced to swallow such a Gudgeon, as that seven-penny Men should be fed with Venison.1711–12Swift Jrnl. to Stella 8 Jan., I forgot Catherine's sevenpenny dinner.1908Daily Chron. 17 Aug. 5/4 The neatly-bound, well-printed sevenpenny or shilling volume of fiction.1908Westm. Gaz. 7 Sept. 4/3 The ‘sevenpenny’ has come to stay as a form for the circulation of English literature.

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