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单词 crin
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crinn.

Brit. /krɪn/, U.S. /krɪn/
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French crin.
Etymology: < French crin horsehair (12th cent. in Old French; in earlier use also in general sense ‘hair’) < classical Latin crīnis hair (see crine n.). O.E.D. Suppl. (1972) also gives the non-naturalized pronunciation (kræṅ) /krɛ̃/.
Horsehair braid; a fabric made from horsehair, alone or in combination with another fibre; an artificial substitute for this; = crinoline n. 1.Crin is a firm but flexible material used for stiffening clothes, upholstery, hat-making, etc. It is now frequently produced using a polyester filament substitute for horsehair.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from mixed fibres > [noun] > hair and cotton or linen
crinoline1829
bergamot1882
crin1900
1686 in M. Cash Devon Inventories 16th & 17th Cent. (1966) 155 3¼ yards of druggett..30 yards of Crin..5 paire of canvas sheetes.
1862 Manch. Weekly Times 1 Nov. (Suppl.) 456/1 The most fashionable autumnal bonnets are black crin (horsehair).
1900 Daily News 9 June 6/6 The crin or horsehair (sometimes called crinoline) hat is poetic enough.
1923 Daily Mail 9 Feb. 11 A similar shape of blue crin straw and satin ribbon.
1963 Times 3 June 11/5 A beret of crin sprinkled with chenille bobbles.
2004 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 24 Aug. Evening dresses from this fall's collection, hand-pleated in silk, chiffon and crin (horsehair to you), will be made to measure.

Compounds

crin vegetal n. (also crin végétal) = vegetable horsehair n. at vegetable adj. Compounds 2.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [noun] > vegetable fibre > other plant fibre
palmite1555
coir1582
pita1648
kitul1681
silk-cotton1697
pita-thread1748
abaca1751
khus khus1798
gomuti1811
coco fibre1813
Manila hemp1814
pineapple fibre1834
moog1840
piassava1841
Para grass1850
raffia1850
African hair1851
ambari1851
diss1855
munj1855
monkey grass1858
crin vegetal1859
mung1866
lauhala1880
bass?1881
raphia bast1882
istle1883
raphia grass1885
settler's twine1898
tucum1901
Manila fibre1921
bassine1923
sotol1942
1859 J. W. Blakesley Four Months in Algeria v. 109 About 150 of them were at work, the most employed in making crin végétal.
1931 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 3 Dec. 1/5 The other commodities on which present rates wil remain are..crin vegetal, flax upholstery, tow and Spanish moss.
2001 G. E. Wickens Econ. Botany xiv. 267 Stuffing and upholstery materials, including vegetable fibre or crin végétal from Chamaerops humilis (dwarf fan palm).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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