barbigerousとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

barbigerous (comparative more barbigerous, superlative most barbigerous)

1. (rare, humorous) Having a beard; bearded; hairy.
   • 1810, James Kennedy, Glenochel, Glasgow: R. Chapman, Volume 2, p. 118,^[2]

     Profoundly thoughtful looks the sage, / Barbigerous, and priestly mien’d;

   • 1972, Saul K. Padover, Karl Marx: An Intimate Biography, New York: McGraw-Hill, Chapter 20, p. 348,^[3]

     the author magnificently barbigerous and the publisher elegantly bearded but bald

   • 2009, Barry Edelstein, Bardisms: Shakespeare for All Occasions, New York: HarperCollins, Chapter 4, pp. 123-124,^[4]

     […] check out a portrait of the earl and you’ll see on his chin a barbigerous bulk that makes the poor fellow look like an Elizabethan cross between two Sams: Uncle and Yosemite.

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