| 单词 | cloth of silver |
| 释义 | > as lemmascloth of silver c. In various phrasal combinations: cloth of gold, a tissue consisting of threads, wires or strips of gold, generally interwoven with silk or wool; also applied to gilded cloth; cloth of silver, a cloth similarly woven with silver.Also cloth of arras n., baudekin n. or bodkin, lake n.1, pleasance n.1, Raines n., tars n., etc.; and broadcloth n. and adj., care-cloth n., cerecloth n., haircloth n., oilcloth n., sackcloth n., etc. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > interwoven with metallic thread tissue?a1366 cypress14.. cloth of goldc1405 imperialc1435 gold webc1475 tinsel1523 cloth of silver1530 imperial clotha1553 tinsey1685 lama1818 lamé1922 kain songket1949 c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1710 The lystes..Hanged with clooth of gold and noght wt sarge. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 206/1 Clothe of sylver, drap dargent. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 732 King Edward and foure other were appareled in cloth of Golde. 1611 Bible (King James) 2 Macc. v. 2 There were seene horsemen running in the aire, in cloth of golde. View more context for this quotation 1870 D. Rock Textile Fabrics (S. Kensington Mus.) Introd. p. xxiii Costly cloth-of-gold webs were wrought. 1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life 144 The cloth-of-gold thrown over it by the buttercups. 1881 Truth 19 May 686/1 The train..was covered with hand-wrought embroidery, the material being cloth of silver. < as lemmas |
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