单词 | goat's wool |
释义 | > as lemmasgoat's wool goat's wool n. †(a) something of little or no importance or worth (obsolete); (b) the finer hair of a goat considered as a material, typically when spun into a yarn or woven into a fabric and used for making garments, blankets, etc.; = goat wool n. (b) at Compounds 3a. [In sense (a) after classical Latin lāna caprīna (in rixārī de lāna caprīna to quarrel about goat's wool, Horace Epistles 1. 18. 15; compare quot. 1567 at goatish adj. 1), originally with reference to a question which could not be decided, so was pointless to discuss, e.g. whether or not goat's hair could be referred to as wool (compare goat's hair n. 1); compare also quot. a1522 for goat wool n. at Compounds 3a. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [noun] > that which is non-existent > a thing that does not exist noughta1425 goat woola1522 goat's wool1550 non-ens1603 nonentity1604 non-existence1646 nothingness1652 non-existent1658 non-being1662 not-being1725 non-existenta1856 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > subfamily Caprinae (goat) > [noun] > (miscellaneous) parts of > hair or wool goat hairOE goat's wool1638 1550 J. Bankes tr. J. Rivius Treat. Folishnesse of Men sig. h.v Our strife is not bout the Goates woole [L. Non de lana caprina..agitur] (as it is said in the common prouerbe). 1602 J. Darrell Surv. Certaine Dialogical Disc. 4 Phisialogus is altogither mute: he spent all his goates wooll in makinge his other web, and hath not left himself one locke, to worke vp this peece with. 1638 L. Roberts Merchants Mappe of Commerce lii. sig. M3v Natolia which in generall for merchandise doth yeeld these commodities, galles, carpets, oyles,..goats wooll[etc.]. 1654 R. Vilvain tr. Enchiridium Epigr. v. xiii. f. 95v Four terms are held in England every wher: Wher brabbles oftimes for Goats wool appeer. 1704 London Gaz. No. 3983/4 The Cargo of the Ship Hamstead Galley..consisting of..Goats-wooll, Cotton-yarn, Cotton-wooll, &c. will be exposed to..Sale. 1852 Fraser's Mag. Nov. 581/2 Of course, no human being who knows anything of the profession..will pay the slightest attention to these recommendations, or consider them as anything more than mere goat's wool. 1908 Amer. Anthropologist 10 296 It is the living survivor of the historic feather cloaks..and the old-time blankets of the North in goat's wool. 2005 R. Dorje Renegade Monk Tibet 234 Virgin goat's wool makes what's known in the West as cashmere. < as lemmas |
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