| 释义 |
ˈshad-belly U.S.
[f. shad n. + belly n.]
A Quaker coat, so called from its shape (see quot. 1860), hence a Quaker. More fully shad-belly coat.
1842Philad. Spirit of Times 18 Mar. (Thornton Amer. Gloss.), A gentleman in a shad-belly coat. 1854J. G. Baldwin Flush Times 67 (Ibid.) He had doffed the cassock, or rather the shadbelly, for the gown. 1860Bartlett Dict. Amer. (ed. 3), Shad-belly coat, one which slopes gradually from the front to the tails, and has no angle. Drab coats of this shape are worn by Quakers, who are hence sometimes called shad-bellies.
Hence shad-bellied a., (a) Of a coat (rarely of a waistcoat) = shad; (b) Of a person, having an abnormally thin or flat belly.
1832J. P. Kennedy Swallow Barn III. i. 3 A shad⁓bellied blue bobtail coat. 1845S. Judd Margaret i. xiii. (1874) 83 Many wore three⁓cornered hats, shad-bellied coats, shoe and knee buckles. 1847[see night-owl 2]. 1851H. Melville Whale xvi, A harpooner in a broad shad-bellied waistcoat. 1871Mrs. Stowe Oldtown Fireside Stor. 12 He was kind o' mournful and thin and shad-bellied. 1874Eggleston Circuit Rider xx. (1895) 146 His coat is straight-breasted,—shad-bellied, as the profane call it. |