cockscomb

英 ['kɒkskəʊm] 美 ['kɑks,kom]
  • n. 鸡冠;鸡冠花;鸡冠帽

英文词源


cockscomb (n.)
c. 1400, "comb or crest of a cock," from possessive of cock (n.1) + comb (n.). Meaning "cap worn by a professional fool" is from 1560s; hence "conceited fool" (1560s), a sense passing into the derivative coxcomb. As a plant name, from 1570s.

双语例句


1. Judas wearing black cockscomb had hidden himself in the shaded volutes of an Ionic column.
一个戴黑帽子的奸细站在爱奥尼柱涡卷的阴影中.

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