Толковый словарь английского языка - pedigree
Pedigree
pedigree
noun Etymology: Middle English pedegru, from Anglo-French pé de grue, literally, crane's foot; from the shape made by the lines of a genealogical chart Date: 15th century a register recording a line of ancestors, 2. an ancestral line ; lineage , the origin and the history of something, 3. a distinguished ancestry, the recorded purity of breed of an individual or strain, ~d or ~ adjective
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n. 1 (often attrib.) a recorded line of descent of a person or esp. a pure-bred domestic or pet animal. 2 the derivation of a word. 3 a genealogical table. 4 colloq. the 'life history' of a person, thing, idea, etc. Derivatives pedigreed adj. Etymology: ME pedegru etc. f. AF f. OF pie de grue (unrecorded) crane's foot, a mark denoting succession in pedigrees PEDIMENT n. 1 a the triangular front part of a building in Grecian style, surmounting esp. a portico of columns. b a similar part of a building in Roman or Renaissance style. 2 Geol. a broad flattish rock surface at the foot of a mountain slope. Derivatives pedimental adj. pedimented adj. Etymology: earlier pedament, periment, perh. corrupt. of PYRAMID ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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