| 词汇 | beldam |
| 词源 | beldam. Beautiful things deteriorate. So do beautiful words. Beldam comes ultimately from the French belle dame, beautiful lady. It crossed the Channel and eventually became a polite En- glish term for a grandmother. Then (as the English grew less polite?) it came to mean any old woman at all, and finally, an ugly old woman, a hag. |
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