单词 | kendal cotton |
释义 | > as lemmasKendal cotton A woollen fabric of the nature of frieze, in the 16th and 17th centuries largely manufactured in Lancashire, Westmorland, and Wales (Manchester cotton, Kendal cotton; also Welsh cotton n. at Welsh adj. and n. Compounds 1b). 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 wool > [noun] > coarse or rough > frieze > of the nature of cotton1503 1523 Act 14 & 15 Hen. VIII c. 11 Any Cottons or playne lininge or frise, made..in..Lancasshyre. 1552 Leland in Draper's Dict. Bolton-upon Moore market stondeth most by cottons and coarse yarne. Divers villages in the Moors about Bolton doe make cottons. 1580 R. Hitchcock Pollitique Platt sig. Fij At Rone in Fraunce..be solde our Englishe wares, as Welche and Manchester Cottons [etc.]. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 746 This towne was of farre greater account..for certain wollen clothes there wrought and in great request commonly called Manchester Cottons. 1641 P. Heylyn Ἡρωολογια Anglorvm 301 Manchester Cottons being famous in all drapers shops. 1754 R. Pococke Trav. (1889) II. 2 [Kendal manufactures] A sort of frieze call'd Cotton, at eight pence a yard..for the West Indies, for the use of the slaves. 1840 C. Nicholson Ann. Kendal (1861) 241 ‘Kendal cotton’ at length became degraded to the use of horse-checks, floor-cloths, dusters, mops, etc. < as lemmas |
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