| 单词 | french merino |
| 释义 | > as lemmasFrench merino French merino n. (a) a French strain of the Merino sheep; an animal of this strain; †(b) a soft fine woollen fabric originally made from the wool of this (cf. merino n. 2a) (obsolete). 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 wool > [noun] > made from specific types of wool > from wool of other animal Angora1763 toile de laine1833 alpaca1851 llama1864 shahtoosha1868 French merino1882 Cheviot1883 mouflon1962 1809 T. Jefferson Let. 23 Nov. in Farm Bk. (1999) 124 I would rather see some of the French Merinos introduced because theirs have been selected from all Spain. 1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 216/1 French Merino..is manufactured of very superior wool from the Merino sheep. 1996 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 24 July 8 (caption) Sheep farmer Fergus Wood with a five-year-old French merino sheep on his farm at Kinlochaird. 2003 D. S. Landes Unbound Prometheus (rev. ed.) v. 240 French ‘merinos’ proved an admittedly inimitable rival of Yorkshire worsteds. < as lemmas |
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