| 单词 | imperial cloth |
| 释义 | > as lemmasimperial cloth imperial cloth n. (also cloth imperial) now historical a high-quality woven fabric, esp. one in use in the Middle Ages with figures worked in gold (cf. sense B. 1). [Compare post-classical Latin pannus imperialis (c1200 in a British source), apparently so called on account of its being made at Constantinople.] ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > interwoven with metallic thread tissue?a1366 cypress14.. cloth of goldc1405 imperialc1435 gold webc1475 tinsel1523 cloth of silver1530 imperial clotha1553 tinsey1685 lama1818 lamé1922 kain songket1949 a1553 Inventory in J. Raine Fabric Rolls York Minster (1859) 310 Two copes of clothe imperialle. 1828 T. Allen Hist. & Antiq. London III. xx. 685 In 1492, 21s. 6d. was expended on four albes for embroidery; two of them were of crimson velvet, the others of imperial cloth of gold. 1859 J. G. Edgar Wars of Roses xl. 394 The corpse, covered with cloth of gold, was carried to the Abbey of Westminster under a rich canopy of cloth imperial, supported by four knights. 1990 A. L. H. Rhinelander Prince Michael Vorontsov vi. 66 The imperial cloth was woven from a number of unique yarns. 2003 A. Wroe Perfect Prince (2004) ii. 65 Above it [sc. the coffin] was a canopy of cloth imperial fringed with gold and blue silk. < as lemmas |
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