| 单词 |
parnel |
| 释义 |
† parnel Obs. exc. dial.
Forms: 4 pernele, purnele, 6 peronall, 7 parnell, pernel, 7–8 parnel, (9 dial. panel).
[a. OF. Peronele, Pernele:—L. Petronilla a woman's name, a saint so named; popularly viewed as a feminine deriv. of Petrus, Peter.]
A priest's concubine or mistress; a harlot; a wanton young woman.
1362Langl. P. Pl. A. iv. 102 Til lordes and ladies louen alle treuþe, And perneles porfyl be put in heore whucche. 1393Ibid. C. xviii. 71 Of þat þat holychurche of þe olde lawe cleymeþ, Priestes on aparail and on purnele spenen. 1508Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen 231 A tender peronall, that myght na put thole. 1560–4Becon Display. Popish Mass Wks. iii. 41 b, Your noppy Ale and Toste, which your prety Parnel hath ful louingly prepared for you against your Masse be done. 1606Choice, Chance, etc. (1881) 70 His dainty Parnell hath no paragon. 1678Phillips (ed. 4), Parnel,..an Appellation, particularly applied to any kind of wanton Woman. a1800Old Lincolnshire Ballad (Halliw.), Panels march by two and three, Saying, Sweetheart, come with me.
b. prattling parnel: an old name for the plant London Pride (Saxifraga umbrosa).
1597Gerarde Herbal ii. cclxiii. 645 Of our London dames pratling Parnell. |
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