apron-string hold

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An estate held by a man during his wife's life. idiomatic,informal,obsolete
    — He resided at Staleck and the fief made was converted into an "apron-string hold" and hereditary fief, for the benefit of his wife and daughter; for that in opposition to the Emperor himself, he had remained firm to the Archbishop in a Diet held at Mainz.

词形变化

apron-string holds plural
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