| 单词 |
wine-lees |
| 释义 |
ˈwine-lees [f. wine n.1 + pl. of lee n.2] The sediment deposited in a vessel containing wine. Also fig.
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 60 Aischis of wiyn lies. 1483Cath. Angl. 419/2 Wyne lees.., tartarum, vinacium. 1585Higins Junius' Nomencl. 95/2 Fex vini vsta,..wine leeze. 1642–4Vicars God in Mount 40 The wine-lees of poysoning Popish fopperies. 1734tr. Rollin's Anc. Hist. (1827) I. 103 Their faces smeared over with winelees. 1765Sterne Tr. Shandy VII. xxi, The under-gardener dressed the muleteer's hat in hot wine-lees. 1859Dickens T. Two Cities i. v, One tall joker..scrawled upon a wall with his finger dipped in muddy wine lees—Blood. attrib.1843R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xviii. 202 A matter of a wine lees colour. |

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