cockscomb
英 ['kɒkskəʊm]
美 ['kɑks,kom]
英文词源
- cockscomb (n.)
- c. 1400, "comb or crest of a cock," from possessive of cock (n.1) + comb (n.). Meaning "cap worn by a professional fool" is from 1560s; hence "conceited fool" (1560s), a sense passing into the derivative coxcomb. As a plant name, from 1570s.
双语例句
- 1. Judas wearing black cockscomb had hidden himself in the shaded volutes of an Ionic column.
- 一个戴黑帽子的奸细站在爱奥尼柱涡卷的阴影中.
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