under-spur-leather

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词形变化

under-spur-leathers 复数 under-spur-leathers

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Subordinate, underling.

    废旧

    1711, Jonathan Swift, Letter to Esther Johnson dated 9 October, 1711, in Letters Written by the Late Jonathan Swift, London: C. Bathurst et al., 3rd edition, 1769, p. 61, I have instructed an under-spur-leather to write so, that it is taken for mine.

    1816, Walter Scott, The Black Dwarf in Tales of my Landlord, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, Volume 1, Chapter 12, p. 242, […] I have opened house, not only for the gentry, but for the under-spur-leathers whom we must necessarily employ.

词源

From under- + spur-leather.

来源:wiktionary