lutestring

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A plain, stout, lustrous silk, used for ladies' dresses and for ribbon. archaic,countable,uncountable
    — There goes Mrs. Roundabout, I mean the fat lady in the luteſtring trollopee. Betvveen you and I, ſhe is but a cutler's vvife. See hovv ſhe's dreſſed, as fine as hands and pins can make her […]
  2. A type of moth with a band-like marking across the forewing, of the former taxonomic family Thyatiridae, also, the band-like marking. countable,uncountable
    — There are six hook-tips and 10 in the lutestring group, which was formerly treated as a separate family, Thyatiridae.
  3. The string of a lute. countable,uncountable
    — More scrolls were wedged into the wall's pigeonholes, along with minature assemblages of circuitry and glass, a theramin wand, coils of lutestrings and ivory lute-keys, stacks of crystal discs, a broken gamelan.

词形变化

lutestrings plural

词源

Corrupted form of French lustring, probably influenced by lute.
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