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† sleave-silk Obs.
Also 6 slaye-, 7 slea-, 8 sleeve-.
[f. sleave v. 1.]
Silk thread capable of being separated into smaller filaments for use in embroidery, etc.
α1588in Antiquary XXXII. 373, ii ounce of slaye sylke, xvid. 1676Rainbow Funeral Serm. C'tess Pembroke (1677) 38 A Prime..Wit [marg. Dr. Donne]..is reported to have said of this Lady..That she knew well how to discourse of all things, from Predestination, to Slea-silk.
β1598Florio, Capitone, a kinde of course silke called sleaue-silke. 1600–2in Whitaker Hist. Craven 315 Paid for sleave silk, xxxiiis. 1672–3Grew Anat. Pl., Roots (1682) 66 The Threds..stand collateral together; as the several Single Threds of the Silkworm do in Sleave-Silk. 1703Lond. Gaz. No. 3924/3 Sleeve and Twisted Silk.
Comb.a1631Donne Poems (1633) 190 Let..curious traitors, sleave silke [pr. sicke] flies Bewitch poore fishes wandring eyes.
transf. and fig.1649Lovelace Poems (1864) 36 In the sleave-silke of her haire 'Twas hard bound up and wrapped. 1649G. Daniel Trinarch., Hen. IV, lxxxv, When..all faculties In yt sleave-silke of Sleep soft-fettered Lay. |