10 LIBROS DEL INGLÉS RELACIONADOS CON «MELICOTTON»
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Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English, Containing ...
(A.-N.) Calumny. MALECOLYE, s. Melancholy. MALECOTOON, .9. (Lot. malum
MELICOTTON, ll cotoniatum.) A kind of late peach. Peaches, apricots, And
malecotoone, with other choicer plumb 5, Will serve for large'siz'd bullets.
Ordinary, 0.
A wife here with a strawberry breath, cherry-lips, apricot cheeks, and a soft velvet
head,5 like a melicotton. 6 A soft velvet head like a melicotton.] The allusion is to
Win's cap : a velvet cap was, at this time, the fashionable dress. In consequence ...
Ben Jonson, William Gifford, 1875
Mary, inter]'. The ME. form of the oath, 'marry.' 23. 20. Maryhinchco, n. A disease
of horses. 55. 22 (cf. note). Meditant, a. Meditating. 9. 12. Meet, a. Even. 37. 29.
Melicotton, n. A large kind of peach. 13. 11. Mickle, a. [OE. micel.] Great. 106. 19.
Ben Jonson, Carroll Storrs Alden, 1904
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Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing ...
Dandelion. Dorset. Malebouche.s. {A.-N.) Calumny. Malecolye, s. Melancholy.
Malecotoon, \s. (Lat. malum melicotton, J cotoniatum.) A kind of late peach.
Peaches, apricots, And malecotoons.witli other choicer plumbs, Will serve for
large-siz'd ...
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A Supplement to Johnson's English Dictionary: Of which the ...
MALECOTOO'N, MELICOTTON. n. [This is supposed (in a note to the collection of
old plays published 1780) to mean 'a late kind of peach;' but, as peaches occur
before in the fame enumeration, and as mala cotonca is one botanical name for ...
George Mason, Samuel Johnson, 1801
here with a strawberry-breath, cherry-lips, apricot-cheeks, and a soft velvet head,
like a melicotton. LITTLEWIT: Good i' faith! Now dullness upon me, that I had not
that before him, that I should not light on't as well as he! Velvet head! WIN WIFE: ...
Ben Jonson, Michael Jamieson, 1966
A wife here with a strawberry-breath, cherry-lips, apricot-cheeks, and a soft velvet
head, like a melicotton. littlewit Good i'faith!—Now dullness upon me, that I had
not that before 15 him, that I should not light on't as well as he! Velvet head!
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The alchemist. Catiline. Bartholomew Fair
A wife here with a strawberry breath, cherry-lips, apricot cheeks, and a soft velvet
head,5 like a melicotton. Lit. Good, i'faith ! now dulness upon me, that I. * A soft
velvet head like a melicotton.] The allusion is to Win's cap : a velrct cap was, ...
Ben Jonson, William Gifford, 1816
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Folk-etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words ...
Meerschaum, a fine sort of clay out of which pipes are manufactured, a German
word apparently meaning "sea foam," meer schaum, seems originally to have
been a corruption of the Tartaric name myrsen. (Mahn in Webster.) Melicotton, an
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Abram Smythe Palmer, 1882
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Ben Jonson: Four Comedies
14. . habit] Outfit. a strawberry-breath, cherry-lips, apricot-cheeks, and a soft
velvet head like a melicotton. 15 not that before him, that I should not light on 't as
well as he! Velvet head! poet-suckers] Young poets, an analogy to infant rabbits 2
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Ben Johnson, Helen Ostovich, 2014
