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单词 huke
释义 I. huke, n. Obs. exc. Hist.|hjuːk|
Forms: 5 huyke, 5–6 hewk(e, 5–7 huk, 5– huke; also 6–7 huik, 7 huicke, huyck, hoyke, 9 Hist. huque.
[a. OF. huque, heuque a kind of cape with a hood; in med.L. huca (13th c. in Du Cange), MDu. hûke, hôike, heuke, Du. huik, MLG. hoike, LG. hoike, heuke, heike, hokke, hök, E.Fris. heike, heik', haike, hoike. Ulterior origin obscure. See also haik1.]
A kind of cape or cloak with a hood; ‘an outer garment or mantle worn by women and afterwards by men; also subsequently applied to a tight-fitting dress worn by both sexes’ (Fairholt Costume).
1415in Nicolas Test. Vetust. I. 187, I will that all my hopolands [and] huykes not furred, be divided among the servants.1418E.E. Wills (1882) 37 Also a Hewk of grene and other melly parted.1423Jas. I Kingis Q. xlix, An huke sche had vpon hir tissew quhite.c1440[see haik n.1].a1529Skelton E. Rummyng 56 Her huke of Lyncole grene.1530Palsgr. 231/1 Hewke a garment for a woman, surquayne, froc.Ibid. 233/1 Huke.1616Bullokar, Huke, a Dutch attire couering the head, face, and all the body.a1626Bacon New Atl. (1627) 24 A messenger, in a rich Huke.a1657Lovelace Poems (1864) 210 Like dames i' th land of Luyck, He wears his everlasting huyck.1694Dunton's Ladies Dict. (N.), The German virgins..put on a streight or plain garment, such a one as they in some places call a huk.1834J. R. Planché Brit. Costume 181. 1852 C. M. Yonge Cameos (1877) II. xxxvi. 370 When not in armour, she wore a huque, or close-fitting gown.
b. Applied to the Arab. haïk: see haik2.
1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Wks. (N.), The richer sort [of women] doe weare a huicke, which is a rob of cloth or stuffe plated, and the upper part of it is gathered and sowed together in the forme of an English potlid, with a tassell on the top.1660F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 269 (Cairo) They [ladies] go all as 'twere masked and covered with an Huke that hides their face.
Hence huke v. trans., to cover with or as with a huke; to veil, cloak.
1613H. King Halfe-pennyw. Wit (ed. 3) Ded. (N.), I will..throw some light vaile of spotlesse pretended well-meaning over it, to huke and mask it from publicke shame.
II. huke
obs. form of hook, huck.
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