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† ˈPimlico1 Obs.
[app. a place-name or personal surname.]
1. Name of a place of resort (perh. from the name of its proprietor) at Hogsdon (now Hoxton), a suburb of London, formerly celebrated for its ale, cakes, etc.; also, ale named after this place.
[1598Newes from Hogsdon (N.), Hey for old Ben Pimlico's nut-browne.] 1609(title) Pimlyco, or Runne Red Cap. 'Tis a Mad World at Hogsdon. 1610B. Jonson Alch. v. ii, Gallants..seene to flock here..as to a second Hogs-den, In dayes of Pimlico and Eye-bright! 1614J. Cooke Greene's Tu Quoque in Hazl. Dodsley XI. 233, I have sent my daughter this morning as far as Pimlico, to fetch a draught of Derby ale. 1670in J. Nichols Coll. Poems (1780) III. 263 Or stout March-beer, or Windsor-ale,..Or Pimlico, whose too great sale Did marr it.
2. A drinking-vessel of some kind.
1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iii. vi. 103 No small service nor miser glasses will doe the businesse here, nor Pimlicos discharg'd to the round in the middle.
3. Some white dress fabric.
1687Hist. Sir J. Hawkwood ii. 23 The laughing Fellow, dressed up in Pimlico, as Painters..Picture..the shadow of a Ghost. 1760Life Cotton in Walton's Angler ii. p. xx, To bedizen them out in Pimlico, or bloat them up with turgid bombast. |