| 单词 | elastic boots |
| 释义 | > as lemmaselastic boots a. (Partly attributive use of the noun.) In popular language, esp.: That can be stretched without permanent alteration of size or shape. Applied to fabrics, or articles made of them, containing threads or thin strips of rubber usually covered by a woven material. †elastic gum [= French gomme élastique] : india-rubber; elastic web: cloth woven with india-rubber threads so as to stretch; elastic boots: boots with elastic web at the sides. So elastic sides, of elastic boots; also attributive, as elastic side boots, and elliptical = such boots; elastic-sided adj. Also elastic band (band n.2 2); elastic stocking, a remedial stocking made partly of rubber. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > pliableness > [adjective] > elastic > stretchable stretchable1398 extensible1611 extensive1612 tensible1626 tensile1626 reaching1651 distendible1673 extendible1693 distractile1709 distensile1739 extensile1744 elastic1781 distensible1828 distensive1836 stretchy1854 stretching1897 two-way stretch1932 1781 T. Cavallo in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 71 519 Common vitriolic ether..could not affect elastic gum. 1793 Schmeisser in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 83 165 I have..fixed the tube into the stopper by means of a thin piece of elastic gum. 1803 W. Henry in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 93 31 A transfer bottle of elastic gum. c1835 in A. Adburgham Shops & Shopping (1964) iii. 27 Madame L. begs also to recommend her highly approved elastic Parisian corsets. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 15 Elastic waistcoats, bosom friends, and warm stockings, poured in upon the curate. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 424 Elastic bands. The manufacture of braces and garters, with threads of caoutchouc..seems to have originated..in Vienna. 1846 A. Bain Brit. Patent 11,480 5 In order to support..the paper I employ elastic bands of india rubber. 1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. III. 525/1 Elastic side, dress, and other boots. 1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. III. 579/2 Corset..made to fasten in the front with patent spring clasp, and gauze elastic sides... Boots and shoes, with elastic sides, made by sewing pieces of India-rubber to the upper leather and then to the sole. 1855 J. H. Newman Let. in M. Trevor Newman: Light in Winter (1962) 63 My accident of the autumn not being well I had just been obliged to put on my elastic stocking again. 1856 R. Gardiner Handbk. of Foot 48 The introduction of elastic~web for the sides of boots, is a very important improvement. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Elastic-bands, belts, braces, gaiters, &c., made with threads of caoutchouc, either naked or covered. 1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany i. 5 A pair of moderately strong French elastic boots. a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 776/2 Elastic-fabric loom, one having mechanical devices for stretching the rubber threads or shirrs, and holding them at a positive tension while the fabric is woven. 1880 Encycl. Brit. XII. 842/1 The threads used in making elastic webbing are usually cut from spread sheets. 1899 E. Œ. Somerville & ‘M. Ross’ Some Experiences Irish R.M. 295 Narrow feet in elastic-sided cloth boots. 1902 M. Barnes-Grundy Thames Camp 30 A man with a soft felt hat and elastic-sided boots. 1905 M. Barnes-Grundy Vacillations Hazel 292 An elastic-sided-booted woman. 1922 V. Woolf Jacob's Room vii. 136 One pair of elastic stockings for Mrs. Page, widow, aged sixty-three. 1928 J. Galsworthy Swan Song ii. vi. 157 He's made millions..out of the elastic band—has some patent for making them last only just long enough. 1937 F. Stark Diary 25 Nov. in Winter in Arabia (1940) 29 The cook, who, in elastic-sided boots, announces dinner. 1970 Focus June 10/2 Elastic waistband means ordinary elastic is sewn on at the waist. < as lemmas |
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