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Lambswool is the soft wool that comes from a lamb, used for jumpers, hats, and other warm clothes. It feels finer and kinder on the skin than wool from an older sheep, which is why clothes labels like the word. It is often written as one word on a tag. Though actually, in older British English lambswool (or lamb’s wool) was also a hot drink of ale with roasted apples and ; people said the foam on top looked like wool. You will almost always meet the clothing sense now. It names the material, not a whole animal.
羔羊毛(衣物標籤上常直接寫 lambswool)
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
lambswoolnoun詞源 1/ˈlæmzwʊl/
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The wool of a lamb.
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A textile or garment made of wool from a lamb.
lambswoolnoun詞源 2/ˈlæmzwʊl/
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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 […]
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。