Old English
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英文释义
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- The ancestor language of Modern English, also called Anglo-Saxon, spoken in most of Britain from about 400 to 1100.
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Archaic English (Early Modern English) or Middle English speech or writing, or an imitation of this: "old" English.
— Those who claim that they've been reading Shakespeare in Old English betray their ignorance: they haven't.
- The form of black letter used by 16th-century English printers.
- A historical ethnic group in Ireland descended from Norman invaders from Britain from the 12th century to the 17th century.
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