Jacky Howe

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AU

词形变化

Jacky Howes 复数 Jacky Howes

别名

Jackie Howe

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A type of blue sleeveless shirt worn by sheep shearers and labourers.

    澳大利亚

    1949, Ruth Park, Poor Man's Orange, in 2010, The Harp in the South Trilogy, Penguin, unnumbered page, He had finished his tea and was sitting in his Jackie Howe, which is a singlet with the sleeves out of it, and called after a famous shearer of the blade days.

词源

After the gun shearer John Robert (“Jacky” or “Jackie”) Howe, who in 1890 set a long-standing world record by shearing 321 sheep in 7 hours 40 minutes. He is said to have worn a shirt with the sleeves cut off.

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