ouche
名词 n.
英 /aʊtʃ/
美 /aʊtʃ/
英文释义
名词 n.
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A brooch or clasp for fastening a piece of clothing together, especially when set with jewels or valuable.
— My huſbonde had a legende of his lyfe^([sic – meaning wyfe?]) / Eriphilem that for an ouche of golde / Hath preuely vnto the grekes tolde / Where that hir huſbonde hyd him in a place / For which he had at Thebes ſory grace.My husband had a legend of his wife, / Eriphilem, that for a brooch of gold / Has privily unto the Greeks told / Where her husband had hidden himself in a place, / For which he had at Thebes a sad fate.
词源
From Middle English ouche, from nouche, which in phrases like a nouche was re-analyzed as an ouche (rebracketing). From Anglo-Norman nusche and Old French nusche (with metanalysis), from a Germanic source; compare German Nusche, Proto-Germanic *hnuts.
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