sillion

名词 n.
/ˈsɪlɪən/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The thick, voluminous, and shiny soil turned over by a plow. rare,uncountable
    — No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion / Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, / Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermillion.

词源

Revived by Gerard Manley Hopkins in his 1877 (published posthumously in 1918) poem The Windhover; ultimately related to French sillon (“furrow”).
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