单词 | hoop-petticoat |
释义 | hoop-petticoatn. 1. A petticoat or skirt stiffened and expanded by hoops of whalebone, cane, hoop-steel, or the like. (See hoop n.1 6.) ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > underwear > [noun] > underskirt > stiffened or expanded hoop-petticoat1711 hooped petticoat1712 crinoline1847 hoop-skirt1857 Malakoff1861 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 127. ¶5 There are Men of Superstitious Tempers, who look upon the Hoop-Petticoat as a kind of Prodigy. 1725 London Gaz. No. 6391/6 John Lee,..Hoop-Petticoat-Maker. 1770 T. Gray Let. 14 Sept. in Corr. (1971) III. 1146 With what grace..can she conduct her hoop-petticoat thro' this augre-hole, and up the dark windings of the grand escalier? 1837 L. Hunt Men, Women, & Bks. (1876) 310 We perceive a rustling of hoop-petticoats. 2. In full, hoop-petticoat narcissus or daffodil. A plant of the species Narcissus bulbocodium or N. cantabrica, so called from the shape of the yellow or white flowers. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > daffodil and allied flowers > daffodil or narcissus narcissusOE daffodil1548 laus tibi1548 affodill1551 primrose peerless1578 narciss1586 jonquil1629 Spanish trumpet1664 hoop-petticoat1731 poet's narcissus?1786 poet's daffodil1798 Queen Anne's double jonquil1806 polyanthus narcissus1841 tazetta1847 sweet Nancy1848 polyanth narcissus1856 pheasant's eye1872 peerless primrose1884 Tenby daffodil1884 Queen Anne's daffodil1889 poetaz1906 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. 35 Rush-leaf'd Daffadil, with very narrow Petals, and a large tubulous Cup, commonly call'd The Hoop-Petticoat. 1790 Bot. Mag. 3 tab. 88 (heading) Narcissus Bulbocodium. Hoop Petticoat Narcissus. 1841 J. W. Loudon Ladies' Compan. to Flower Garden 190/1 The genus Narcissus is a very extensive one, embracing, as it does, the Jonquils, the Polyanthus Narcissus, the little Hoop Petticoat, the Poet's Narcissus, and the Daffodils, besides numerous others. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Corbularia, a genus of amaryllids, commonly called Hoop-petticoats... C. Bulbocodium, the common Hoop-petticoat. 1889 J. Habberton in Harper's Mag. Feb. 367/1 The daffodil, the ‘pheasant-eye’, and the ‘hoop-petticoat’ are all narcissuses. 1934 E. A. Bowles Handbk. Narcissus xix. 211 It is hard to believe that the white Hoop Petticoat was ever found so far to the north as Cantabrica. 1952 C. E. L. Phillips Small Garden xiii. 164 The ‘hoop-petticoat daffodil’ (N. bulbocodium), 6 ins., like a little bugle with virtually no perianth. 1961 P. M. Synge Collins Guide to Bulbs 232 Bulbocodium group. These are the hoop petticoats and they are nearly all subsp., varieties or forms of N. bulbocodium, a very large and variable sp., the exception being the early white-flowered forms known as monophyllus and foliosus which have now been separated under the name N. cantabricus. 1970 C. Lloyd Well-tempered Garden 137 I dug up a congested clump of the hoop petticoat daffodil. Derivatives ˌhoop-ˈpetticoated adj. wearing a hoop-petticoat; having a flower of this shape (see sense 2 above). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing underwear > wearing underskirt > types of petticoated1824 hoop-petticoated1837 crinolined1848 hoopeda1854 farthingaled1873 crinoletted1885 the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > flower or flowering plant > [adjective] > having flowers or blossom > of specific size, form, or arrangement chaliceda1616 umbelliferous1668 umbellated1731 pyramidal1777 umbellate1785 starry-eyed1793 umbellal1836 hoop-petticoated1837 grandiflora1839 belleda1849 mop-headed1862 geminiflorous1866 notch-flowered1885 multiflora1934 1837 N. Hawthorne Twice-told Tales (1851) II. iv. 79 A hoop-petticoated phantom of Esther Dudley. 1893 Daily News 28 Mar. 2/2 Hoop-petticoated daffodils. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1711 |
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