单词 | featherman |
释义 | feathermann. One who deals in feathers or plumes. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in feathers plumer1282 feather-maker1580 feather-monger1599 feathermana1635 a1635 T. Randolph Muses Looking-glasse i. ii. 5 in Poems (1638) And you sweet Featherman, whose ware though light Oreweighs your Conscience. a1637 B. Jonson Masque of Gypsies 84 in tr. Horace Art of Poetry (1640) With Feathermen, and Perfumers. 1724 J. Arbuthnot Reasons against Bill for Examining Drugs 7 The several Trades and Professions which depend on ours..such as that of the Makers of Hearses, Coaches, Coffins, Epitaphs, and Bell-ropes; Feather-men and Bell-ringers. 1818 M. M. Sherwood Stories Church Catech. (ed. 4) xxi. 145 Mother was so busy with that feather-man, that it was of no use to ask her to hear me. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.a1635 |
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