fleece: [OE] Fleece comes from a prehistoric Germanic *flūsaz. This probably goes back to an Indo-European *plus-, which also produced Latin plūma ‘down’, later ‘feathers’, and Lithuanian plunksna ‘feather’. The metaphorical sense of the verb, ‘swindle’, developed in the 16th century from the literal ‘remove the fleece from’. => plume
fleece (v.)
1530s in the literal sense of "to strip (a sheep) of fleece," from fleece (n.). From 1570s in the figurative meaning "to cheat, swindle, strip of money." Related: Fleeced; fleecer; fleecing.
fleece (n.)
"wool coat of a sheep," Old English fleos, flies "fleece, wool, fur, sealskin," from West Germanic *flusaz (cognates: Middle Dutch vluus, Dutch vlies, Middle High German vlius, German Vlies), which is of uncertain origin; probably from PIE *pleus- "to pluck," also "a feather, fleece" (cognates: Latin pluma "feather, down," Lithuanian plunksna "feather").
雙語例句
1. He was wearing black combat trousers and a hooded fleece.
他穿著黑色作戰褲和帶風帽的羊毛衣。
來自柯林斯例句
2. a bright red fleece
鮮紅的絨頭織物
來自《權威詞典》
3. Michelle will also spin a customer's wool fleece to specification at a cost of $2.25 an ounce.
米歇爾也會按顧客的要求為其紡羊毛呢，每盎司收費2.25美元。
來自柯林斯例句
4. My warmest coat is lined with fleece.
我那件最暖的大衣襯有絨毛裏子.
來自辭典例句
5. With their fleece sopping wet, they huddled in hollows, too dispirited to graze.