Both Uses of
complement
in
Love's Labour's Lost
- Our court, you know, is haunted With a refined traveller of Spain; A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain; One who the music of his own vain tongue Doth ravish like enchanting harmony; A man of complements, whom right and wrong Have chose as umpire of their mutiny: This child of fancy, that Armado hight, For interim to our studies shall relate, In high-born words, the worth of many a knight From tawny Spain lost in the world's debate.†
Scene 1.1complements = combines well with
- These are complements, these are humours; these betray nice wenches, that would be betrayed without these; and make them men of note,—do you note me?†
Scene 3.1 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(complement as in: the color complements her eyes) to combine something with something else to make it better
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(2)
(complement as in: a full complement of crew) a quantity of something that is considered complete