lambswool

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The wool of a lamb. uncountable
  2. A festive drink of ale mixed with the pulp of roasted apples.
    — 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 82-85, Well Masters if you will eate nothing take away: Come, what doo we to passe away the time? Lay a crab in the fire to rost for Lambes-wooll […]
  3. A textile or garment made of wool from a lamb. broadly,countable

词形变化

lambswools plural

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English lamb
English -s-
English wool
English lambswool
From lamb + -s- + wool.
词源 2
Probably identical to Etymology 1, referring to the layer of froth that is produced in making the drink, though starting with Charles Vallancey in 1786, historically supposed to be a corruption of an earlier lamasool or La Maes Abhal "Day of the Apple Fruit" (corresponding to Irish lá measa abhla).
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