单词 | leathern convenience |
释义 | > as lemmasleathern convenience a. Consisting or made of leather. leathern convenience, leathern conveniency: a circumlocution for a coach, originally imputed to the Quakers; hence in jocular use. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > leather > [adjective] > made of leather leathernc1000 riempie1910 society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > covered > coach coach1556 coach-carriage1688 quitcha1693 leathern convenience1699 coach-wagona1720 c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 123/30 Scortia, leþren fæt. c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 179/6 Scortius leðern. 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. v. 110 Lyk a letherne pors lullede his chekes. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Lev. xiii. 59 This is the lawe of the lepre..of all letherin purtenaunce. 1488 in T. Thomson Coll. Inventories Royal Wardrobe (1815) 12 Item in a leddering purs...tuelf score & xvi salutis. 1521 in E. Hobhouse Church-wardens' Accts. (1890) 74 Item payde for a letheryn baag to ber ye keys—iiiid. 1546 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 234 Ane ledderane coit worth tua crovnis of the sone. ?a1600 ( R. Sempill Legend Bischop St. Androis in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlv. 372 A cott of kelt Weill beltit in ane lethrone belt. 1637 J. Milton Comus 22 He..Would..In requitall ope his leather'n scrip. 1683 Britanniæ Speculum 14 The poorest of them were good Leathern Shooes. 1699 E. Ward London Spy I. vii. 3 Our Leathern-Conveniency being bound in the Braces to its Good-Behaviour, had no more Sway than a Funeral Hers. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Leathern Convenience (by the Quakers), a Coach. 1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth III. 322 Men with leathern Buckets, do quench Fire in a Town. 1796 W. Combe Hist. Thames II. 123 Robert Scot, the inventor of leathern artillery. 1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well II. vii. 170 At the duly appointed hour, creaked forth the leathern convenience. 1836 W. Irving Astoria I. 120 The Crow camp..was composed of leathern tents. 1861 J. Y. Simpson Archæol. 56 Human bodies..covered with the leathern and other dresses in which they died. < as lemmas |
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