saltire
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詞源 编辑
源自中古法語 saultoir (對比法語 sautoir),源自sauter (“跳躍”) + -oir,源自拉丁語 saltāre (“跳舞,跳躍”) + -orium, -oria。
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名詞 编辑
saltire (複數 saltires)
- (紋章) X形
- 圣安德鲁旗(Saint Andrew's cross),蘇格蘭國旗
- 2011 10月 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16 – 12 Scotland”, 出自 BBC體育[1],於26 September 2016歸檔自原頁面:
- But the World Cup winning veteran's left boot was awry again, the attempt sliced horribly wide of the left upright, and the saltires were waving aloft again a moment later when a long pass in the England midfield was picked off to almost offer up a breakaway try.
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- 2014 9月 16, Ian Jack, “Is this the end of Britishness?”, 出自 衛報[2], 倫敦,於18 April 2016歸檔自原頁面:
- It was early August. In the Borders, there were few signs yet of a campaign that could take Scotland out of the United Kingdom. A large Y-E-S hung in separate letters from a tree on the road from Coldstream to Kelso. There wasn't a N-O to match it, but Kelso town hall flew both the saltire and the union jack.
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近義詞 编辑
- (X形): crux decussata
- (蘇格蘭國旗): Saint Andrew's cross