单词 | head-tire |
释义 | head-tiren. Now rare (historical and English regional in later use). Something worn upon the head; a piece of headgear, or an adornment for the head. In later use also as mass noun: adornment or attire for the head. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] attirec1380 headgeara1500 chapeau1523 headpiece1547 headclothes1549 attiring1552 head-tire1560 headdress1645 head-dressing1678 hairdress18.. headwear1867 ta-tac1910 1560 Bible (Geneva) 1 Esdras iii. 6 An head tyre of fine linnen [Gk. κίδαριν βυσσίνην]. 1598 G. Chapman Blinde Begger of Alexandria sig. D2 Well Madam then and please your Ladishippe, What gownes and head tyres will your honor weare. 1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster West-ward Hoe ii. ii. sig. C3 That French gowne, Scotch fals, Scotch bum, and Italian head-tire you sent her. 1653 H. Holcroft tr. Procopius Persian Wars i. 20 in tr. Procopius Hist. Warres Justinian The King..took from him his Head-tire of gold and pearl, which tied up his hair. 1706 Nocturnal Revels II. 80 If the Head-Tires be lost, broken or bruised in the Dream, it is loss to a Woman. 1796 J. Strutt Compl. View Dress & Habits People of Eng. I. ii. vii. 79 Head-tires, or half circles of gold, were certainly used by the fair sex at a very early period of the Saxon æra. 1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision III. xv. 67 She had no armlets and no head-tires [It. corona] then. 1836 B. E. Hill Recoll. Artillery Officer II. xvii. 303 Their faces [were] nearly concealed by the frills of head-tire which fell veil-wise down their backs. 1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 80 Head-gear or Head-tyre, the head dress and its adornments. 1903 A. M. Earle Two Cent. Costume Amer. II. xx. 535 All Puritan women..closely covered the head in public. Some head-tire was universal. 1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. Heeadtire, head-dress of persons. 2007 C. Nicholl Lodger xiv. 142 We cannot see an Elizabethan or Jacobean head-tire in the flesh, but we can see them in many paintings. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1560 |
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