point-device

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A form of lace worked with devices. historical,uncountable
  2. Anything uncommonly precise and exact. obsolete,uncountable
    — You are rather point-device in your accouterments, as loving yourself than seeming the lover of any other.

词形变化

point-devise alternative

词源

From Middle English poynt devise, from the Old French phrase *a point devise, with the participle taken as a noun; compare Old French a devis and Anglo-Norman en poynt devis.
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