Coronet
['kɒr(ə)nɪt] or [,kɔrə'nɛt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) margin between the skin of the pastern and the horn of the hoof.
(noun.) a small crown; usually indicates a high rank but below that of sovereign.
整理:维维安--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) An ornamental or honorary headdress, having the shape and character of a crown; particularly, a crown worn as the mark of high rank lower than sovereignty. The word is used by Shakespeare to denote also a kingly crown.
(n.) The upper part of a horse's hoof, where the horn terminates in skin.
(n.) The iron head of a tilting spear; a coronel.
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解釋/意思:
n. a small crown inferior to the sovereign's worn by the nobility: an ornamental head-dress: the part of a horse's pastern just above the coffin—also Cor′net.—adj. Cor′oneted.
錄入:梅林达
例句/造句/用法:
- To midnight revelry, and the panting emulation of beauty, to costly dress and birth-day shew, to title and the gilded coronet, farewell! 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- This case, I presume, contains the coronet. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- She told him of the coronet. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- So saying, he lifted the coronet, and placed it upon Rowena's head, in token of her acceptance of the temporary authority assigned to her. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- But what is the good of all these vague theories, cried the banker impatiently, when I have told you that I saw Arthur with the coronet in his hands? 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- The question now was, who was the man and who was it brought him the coronet? 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET Holmes, said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking down the street, here is a madman coming along. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet in his hands. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the coronet, cried Mr. Holder. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Sophia has made a new conquest of an elderly gentleman in a curricle, with a coronet on it. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with the coronet in his hand? 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Presently she emerged from the room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- The lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the sum which I have asked. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- So there was splendour and wealth, but no great happiness perchance, behind the tall caned portals of Gaunt House with its smoky coronets and ciphers. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The dark mark of fate and doom was on the threshold--the tall old threshold surmounted by coronets and caned heraldry. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
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