单词 | gold or silk thread |
释义 | > as lemmasgold or silk thread a. Without a, as name of the substance of which the above-mentioned things are composed, or of these things taken in the mass; woollen, silk, linen, cotton, or other fibre, or fine-drawn metal, spun into material for weaving, knitting, sewing, or fastening: often with distinctive premodifier, as gold or silk thread; sometimes spec. flaxen or linen thread as distinct from silk or cotton; in plural, kinds of thread. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [noun] yarnc1000 threadc1386 Muscovy yarn1604 multifilament1944 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [noun] > metallic > gold or silver goldOE fildora1350 gold or silk threadc1386 purl1394 silver1423 shreda1450 Venice gold1506 Venice silver1574 spun gold1728 passing1848 tambour1899 c1386 G. Chaucer Monk's Tale 485 Nettes of gold threed hadde he greet plentee. c1400 Rom. Rose 7369 A large coverechief of threde She wrapped alle aboute hir hede. c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 6775 Of his hors fel that kynge, As it were a clewe of thred. c1400 Lybeaus Disc. (Kaluza) 940 As selke þrede. 1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes ii. x, in Wks. 195/1 He thankinge the monke for the thrid, desired him to teach him how he should knit it. 1545 Rates Custome House sig. cvijv Threde called wotenall threde. 1552–3 Inventory Church Goods in Ann. Diocese Lichfield (1863) IV. 48 ij vestements, one of grene chamblet, another of threde. 1576 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Queen Elizabeth (1908) 264 For a quartern of black threede. 1584 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Queen Elizabeth (1908) 370 For iii li. of thrid of all cullers. 1588 R. Parke tr. J. G. de Mendoza Comm. Notable Thinges in tr. J. G. de Mendoza Hist. Kingdome of China 320 They take out of this plant..a kinde of thride or yarne. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 94 Wt threid of silke..al the partes of the sarke..thay sewit. 1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 184 They have also thread from another tree called Langir. 1803 Gazetteer Scotl. at Turreff The principal manufacture is that of linen yarn, thread, and brown linens. 1887 Daily News 19 Oct. 2/8 Linens and threads maintain the improvement lately reported. < as lemmas |
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