单词 | hap-harlot |
释义 | hap-harlotn. Now historical (in 19th cent. chiefly English regional (northern and eastern)). A coarse bedcovering or coverlet.The meaning is quot. 1517 is not clear. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > household linen > bedclothes > [noun] > outer cover > coarse dagonc1386 dagswain?a1400 hap-harlot1517 1517 in B. Cusack Everyday Eng. 1500–1700 (1998) 101 Robert edward wyll spende all hys happe harlottys that he makys in a yer to the valuer of twenty markys to helpe them wtall. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Happe harlot, couerlet so called, matta, teges. 1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. ii. f. 85/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Our fathers..haue lyen full oft vpon straw pallettes couered onely with a sheete vnder couerlettes made of dagswain or hopharlots (I vse their owne termes). 1607 T. Dekker & G. Wilkins Cock Wat in Iests to make you Merie 22 I finde..plenty of offenders, some lying on hard stock-beds, but the most sleeping on harder bordes: some with course sheetes and thinne couerings, the rest in steade of a hap harlot, or other couerture, heauy Irons. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Haphartlet. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Hap-harlot, a coarse coverlit. 1862 T. Wright Hist. Domest. Manners 407 A hap-harlot or hop-harlot, was also a very coarse kind of coverlet. a1880 T. R. Hazard Jonny-cake Papers (1915) Notes 394 Hapharlots are still woven in South Kingstown, being a kind of coarse coverlet. 1970 M. M. Campbell New Eng. Butt'ry Shelf Almanack 269 He was best known for the coverlets and ‘hap-harlots’ (a medieval term for a coarse woollen bedcover) which he wove in quantity. 2007 Providence (Rhode Island) Jrnl. (Nexis) 27 Sept. c1 William Harrison Rose..used his weaving skill in Kingston in 1912, weaving rugs, chenille wraps and something called ‘Hap-harlots’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1517 |
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