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‖ tricoteuse|trikɔtœz|
Also Tricoteuse.
[Fr.]
1. A woman who knits; applied spec. to women who, during the French Revolution, sat and knitted at meetings of the Convention or at guillotinings. Also transf.
1830Hazlitt Life of Napoleon Buonaparte I. vi. 284 It was this [popular fury] that inspired the Furies of the Guillotine, and sat and smiled in the galleries of the Convention with the tricoteuses of Robespierre! a1886M. B. Chesnut in C. V. Woodward M. Chesnut's Civil War (1981) viii. 183 Jenny Barron, Jenny Cooper and Mary Hammy have gone to have their photographs taken as ‘Tricoteuses’, each armed with their knitting. 1905Baroness Orczy Scarlet Pimpernel i. 8 The old hags, ‘tricotteuses’ [sic] as they were called, who sat there and knitted, while head after head fell beneath the knife. 1940M. Dickens Mariana viii. 309 The eyes of the tricoteuses nearly came out of their heads, and the less hardened of them dropped a stitch. 1961Guardian 19 Apr. 10/6 Is it fair that the Conservative Women's Conference should..be thought of as..a collection of elegant Tricoteuses? 1972R. Quilty Tenth Session i. 66 The inner circle around the victim, the eager tricoteuses who always collected at any drama on the streets. 1973Listener 22 Nov. 727 The wife of the production manager..sits sourly knitting on set like a tricoteuse at the guillotine.
2. Antiques. (See quot. 1960.)
1960H. Hayward Antique Coll. 287/2 Tricoteuse (Fr.), a term probably of 19th-cent. origin, applied to a small work-table surrounded by a gallery, part of which can be lowered to contain sewing materials. 1973Country Life 30 Aug. (Suppl.) 72/2 Mahogany Tricoteuse with black line inlay. English, circa 1810. |