| 单词 |
threadbareness |
| 释义 |
ˈthreadbareness [f. prec. + -ness.] The state or quality of being threadbare.
1530Palsgr. 280/2 Threde bareness, deureur. c1600Distr. Emperor i. i. in Bullen O. Pl. (1884) III. 169 Thou that hast worne thy selfe and a blewe coate To equall thryddbareness. 1771Mackenzie Man Feel. xxi. (1886) 60 His look..spoke of the sleekness of folly and the threadbareness of wisdom. 1870Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. i. (1873) 355 A little threadbareness in the similes. So threadˈbarity nonce-wd., in same sense.
1892Besant Ivory Gate 69 The rags and duds and threadbarity too often enter largely into the picturesque. |

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