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pullicate|ˈpʌlɪkət|
Also 8 pullcat, 8–9 pulicat(e, 9 dial. pollicate.
[From Pulicat, name of a town on the Madras coast, in Tamil pala Vêlkāḍu ‘old Velkādu’.]
a. A coloured handkerchief, originally made at Pulicat.
b. Later (from c 1785), A material made in imitation of these, woven from dyed yarn; also = pullicate handkerchief, a checked coloured handkerchief of this material. Also attrib.
a. [Cf.1519G. Correa Lendas da India (1860) II. 567 Roupas pintadas e tecidas de côres que se fazem em Paleacate, que he costa de Choramandel. Yule's transl. Painted cloths and other coloured goods, such as are made in Paleacate, which is on the coast of Choromandel.] 1839Encycl. Brit. (ed. 7) XVIII. 704/2 Pullicat... The inhabitants are principally manufacturers and fishermen, who manufactured the handkerchiefs that took their name from this town.
b.1792P. Freneau Poems (1809) I. 31 Hum-hums are here—and muslins—what you please—Bandanas, baftas, pullcats, India teas. 1794Statist. Acc. Scotl. XII. 114 Manufactured pulicates of a very superior colour or cotton pulicate handkerchiefs. 1808Usef. Projects in Ann. Reg. 131/2 For drying of dyed yarn and pullicates (a kind of coloured chequed cotton handkerchiefs) a higher temperature..is required. 1820J. Cleland Rise & Progr. Glasgow 95 The same year [1785] pullicate handkerchiefs were begun to be made. 1880A. Somerville Autobiog. 59, I wrought all that day on his loom, finishing 16 napkins of a 10/100 pulicate. 1891Blackw. Mag. Oct. 571 A pulicat or gingham weaver at St. Ninians. 1958[see Monteith2]. |