单词 | holland |
释义 | Hollandn.1 1. a. The name of a province of the Northern Netherlands, formerly a county or ‘graafschap’ (comitatus) of the German Empire; now usually extended to the kingdom of the Netherlands. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > Low Countries > [noun] > Netherlands or Holland Holland?a1400 Low Parties1508 United Provinces1579 United States1600 Dutchland1617 ?a1400 Morte Arth. 35 Holaund and Henawde they helde of hyme bothe. 1436 Libel in Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 180 But they of Holonde, at Caleyse byene oure felles And oure wolles. 1449 R. Wenyngton in Paston Lett. & Papers (2005) III. 70 The chef schyppys of Duche lond, Holond, Selond and Flaundrys. 1655 W. Lower tr. R. de Cerisiers Innocent Lord 67 All those effeminates, whom the Cloth of Holland hurteth. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 51 He went Embassadour into Holland to the States General. 1866 W. D. Howells Venetian Life 256 The vegetable and fruit market where whole Hollands of cabbage and Spains of onions opened on the view. b. attributive esp. in names of products received from Holland: see quots. Holland-cloth n. see 2. Holland sauce n. = Hollandaise n. Holland-toad n. a small Dutch herring-boat. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > fishing vessel > [noun] > Dutch corverc1491 Holland-toad1614 tode1614 galliot1794 the world > food and drink > food > additive > sauce or dressing > [noun] > sauces for fish Dutch sauce1573 ramolade1702 fish-sauce1728 Hollandaise sauce1841 tartar sauce1855 Holland sauce1877 Marie Rose1920 meunière sauce1984 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 147v Next are commended the Holland Cheese, the Cheese of Normandy, and the Englishe Cheese. 1614 Eng. Way to Wealth in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) III. 237 Vessels of divers fashions..go..for herrings..and they are called..Holland-toads. 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician 4 Lime mixed with Holland soap eats deep enough into the flesh. 1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon i. 58 A slate formerly taken up at East Alwington, and exported under the name of Holland blues. 1877 E. S. Dallas Kettner's Bk. of Table 162 Dutch or Holland Sauce: Sauce Hollandaise. 1893 T. F. Garrett & W. A. Rawson Encycl. Pract. Cookery II. 387/2 Dutch or Holland Sauce (à la Hollandaise). 2. a. A linen fabric, originally called, from the province of Holland in the Netherlands, Holland cloth. When unbleached called brown Holland. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from flax, hemp, or jute > [noun] > linen > types of > from specific place of origin Holland1427 minsters1481 tregarc1610 roan1617 Strasbourg linen1635 quentin1688 garlits1696 Ghenting1699 platilla1699 Russia linen1728 Russia crash1831 Ruskin linen1890 1427 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 77 Unum super~pellicium novum de holand-cloth. c1450 Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 241 A shert of feyn Holond. c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. lxxviijv/2 Item a pece holland or ony other lynnen cloth. 1542 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 220 Thre elnes of Holand cloth. 1551–2 Househ. Acc. P'cess Eliz. in Camden Misc. II. 31 For vj. ellnes of hollande for towelles. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. iii. 70 Holland of viii s. an ell. View more context for this quotation 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 169 Women..cover their heads with a coyfe of fine holland linen cloth. 1661 in J. Russell Haigs of Bemersyde (1881) 470 To bay holen..to make bands of. 1667 J. Dryden Annus Mirabilis 1666 ccvi. 52 Some..For folded Turbans finest Holland bear. 1675 N. Grew Compar. Anat. Trunks ii. vii. 79 All our fine Hollands are made of Flax. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Holland or Holland-Cloth, a kind of Linnen Cloth made in that Country. 1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) iii. 16 Every chandelier or lustre, muffled in holland. 1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour v. xxiv. 130 He had the house put away in brown Holland, the carpets rolled up, the pictures covered, the statues shrouded in muslin. 1884 Times (Weekly ed.) 12 Sept. 7/1 Frocks of neat brown holland embroidered with scarlet. b. attributive and in other combinations: of Holland (cloth). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from flax, hemp, or jute > [adjective] > linen > types of throwneOE sindonc1500 roan1545 Holland1554 lawny1598 osnaburg1681 1554 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 146 Oon paier of holland shetes. 1660 in Harl. Misc. (1811) VII. 198 Six dozen of large fine Holland handkerchiefs. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 518. ⁋9 An open breast, with an audacious display of the Holland shirt. 1879 ‘E. Lyall’ Won by Waiting xxvi Looking cool and countrified in their brown holland suits. Compounds In sense 2, as holland-weaver; holland-lined adj. ΚΠ 1895 Westm. Gaz. 13 Sept. 3/1 Ancient holland-lined barouches. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online September 2020). Hollandn.2 Used as the proper name of the first submarine of the type designed by J. P. Holland and afterwards generically. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > submarine submarine1889 Holland1899 sub1915 pigboat1921 fish1925 guppy1948 killer submarine1955 snorter1962 nuclear1969 1899 Westm. Gaz. 7 Dec. 2/3 The President of the official Naval Board, and several of its members have signed a statement declaring that their ‘Holland’ has fulfilled all requirements in her trial trip. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 576/2 The Holland, a smaller boat, having a length of about 59 ft., though begun after the Plunger, has already been completed. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 576/2 The latest Holland design is shown in Fig. 95. 1906 Daily Chron. 8 Sept. 5/3 The original Holland class of submarine. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1?a1400n.21899 |
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