dimity

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A light strong fabric with woven stripes or squares. countable,uncountable
    — Strain the ſoup through a piece of dimity into a clean ſaucepan, and let it ſtew till it is of the thickneſs of cream.
  2. Alternative form of dimmity (“dusk, twilight”). alt-of,alternative
    — The twilight fell mistily—it was the first of the autumn mists—and in the dimity the undispersed families of the tawny owl called to each other, the young with keewick and the old with the proper hooroo, hooroo.

词形变化

dimities plural dimmity alternative dimities plural dimmity alternative

词源

From earlier dimite, from Middle English demit, demyt, from Medieval Latin dimitum, from Byzantine Greek δίμιτον (dímiton), from Ancient Greek δίμιτος (dímitos, “of double thread”).
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