| 单词 | drizzler |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdrizzler 4. intransitive. To pick the gold thread out of tassels or embroideries into which it was woven; so drizzler, drizzling (also attributive). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > sew or ornament textile fabric [verb (intransitive)] > unravel gold thread drizzle1884 1884 tr. Bauer's Posthumous Mem. II. i. 117 Prince Leopold..diligently and indefatigably drizzled. 1884 tr. Bauer's Posthumous Mem. II. i. 118 This ‘drizzling’..was invented in Paris..during the reign of King Louis XVI... The most fashionable ladies of the court felt no compunction in asking the gentlemen of their acquaintance for cast-off gold and silver epaulettes. 1896 Godey's Mag. Feb. 177/2 Drizzling—which was nothing more or less than picking the gold thread out of old gold tassels, braid, [etc.]. 1896 Godey's Mag. Feb. 178/1 One of the Countess's principal grievances against the Prince seems to have been that he was a confirmed drizzler; she says Leopold would sit by her hour after hour diligently and indefatigably drizzling... The tall Prince..bending over his elegant drizzling-box of tortoise-shell. 1969 E. H. Pinto Treen 310 The value of the material in gold lace led to later destruction of much of it for reclamation of the gold. In France, in the late 18th century, parfilage or unravelling became a social and profitable pastime. Early in the 19th century, the destructive addiction came to England under the name of drizzling. < as lemmas |
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