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").
双语例句
1. He was wearing black combat trousers and a hooded fleece.
他穿着黑色作战裤和带风帽的羊毛衣。
来自柯林斯例句
2. a bright red fleece
鲜红的绒头织物
来自《权威词典》
3. Michelle will also spin a customer's wool fleece to specification at a cost of $2.25 an ounce.
米歇尔也会按顾客的要求为其纺羊毛呢，每盎司收费2.25美元。
来自柯林斯例句
4. My warmest coat is lined with fleece.
我那件最暖的大衣衬有绒毛里子.
来自辞典例句
5. With their fleece sopping wet, they huddled in hollows, too dispirited to graze.