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单词 hoop-petticoat
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hoop-petticoatn.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˌhoop-ˈpetticoat.
1. A petticoat or skirt stiffened and expanded by hoops of whalebone, cane, hoop-steel, or the like. (See hoop n.1 6.)
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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.
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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).
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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).
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