单词 | longcoat |
释义 | longcoatn. 1. Any of various garments covering the upper body and reaching below the waist; (in later use) spec. an outer coat reaching to the calves or ankles.Perhaps not a fixed collocation in some early quots. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > types of > long side-coata1382 longcoat1538 jubbah1548 polony1722 polonaise1819 jibbah1848 achkan1911 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Demissitia tunica, a longe cote. 1576 A. Golding tr. Lyfe Shatilion sig. Hii Cossins..browght in first certein of the Swissers apparelled in longcotes garded with blacke, white, and greene, wherby it was perceyued that they were of ye Duke of Aniowes gard. 1584 R. Wilson Three Ladies of London ii. sig. A.iiv (stage direct.) Enter Dissimulation, hauing on a farmers long coat, and a cappe. 1623 tr. J. A. de la Peña Relation of Royall Festiuities 9 There went before his horse foure Trumpeters, in long Coates of blacke Sattin, garded with Gold Lace. 1693 T. Smith in J. Ray Coll. Curious Trav. II. 72 They throw off their upper Vest and Turbants..and tuck up their Duliman or long Coat to their Girdle. 1761 London & Environs Described IV. 76 The coachman's cap and feather, his long coat, his cushion, [etc.]. 1823 Edinb. Ann. Reg. 1820 13 315/1 The above-named Arthur Thistlewood..usually wears a blue long coat and blue pantaloons. 1889 Harper's Mag. May 835/1 An enormous coachman, with a long white beard, wrapped in his longcoat. 1909 Fra Aug. p. viii Uriah Heep, with his lean, lank form, his skeleton hands, his black longcoat..is gone forever. 1944 S. H. Adams Canal Town ii. i. 268 She put away the vision of herself, superb in a seal's-fur longcoat, stalking regally through the carved oaken door. 2006 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 25 Nov. (Mag.) 2 I did admire the longcoat-and-Doc-Marten brigade and the fact they got away with not washing. 2. Frequently in plural. A gown worn by young children (including boys before breeching), occasionally spec. (in plural) long garments worn by babies (= long clothes n.). Frequently also (and in earliest use): the clothing traditionally worn by a fool. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > for specific people > for children > for a baby > long clothes longcoat1591 side-coat1601 long clothes1764 long1837 swaddling-robe1845 1591 N. Breton Bowre of Delights sig. D2v Now if you do not know what meane these speeches, Fooles haue long cotes, and Monkies haue no breeches. 1594 J. Smythe Certen Instr. Militarie 140 They resemble a sport that I haue seene little boies play, hanging one vpon anothers long coate when there haue bene many of them together, called, Why Puttocke away. 1611 T. Middleton & T. Dekker Roaring Girle sig. Ev If the wife go in breeches, the man must weare long coates like a foole. 1616 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor (rev. ed.) ii. v, in Wks. I. 26 This is in the infancie; the dayes Of the long coate: when it puts on the breeches, It will put off all this. 1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes iii. ii. 132 in Wks. II A Cabal..set out by Archie, Or some such head, of whose long coat they haue heard, And being black, desire it. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1666 (1955) III. 468 My sonn Jack [who was eleven] being..then but newly out of long Coates. 1741 Memorials & Characters 115 Being yet in his Long-Coats, (which heretofore were usually worn beyond the Years of Infancy) he was sent to Eaton-School. 1769 J. Granger Biogr. Hist. Eng. I. App. 320 It appears from portraits, that long coats were worn by boys, till they were seven or eight years of age. 1793 Merlinus Liberatus 47 The parish not only maintained him, but allowed a nurse to attend him to preserve him from harm, for he was so stupid as to be obliged to were [sic] long coats. 1821 C. Lamb in London Mag. Mar. 264/1 Mrs. S——..who had power to thrill the soul of Elia, small imp as he was, even in his long coats. 1840 W. M. Thackeray Catherine vii Master Thomas Billings..was in his long-coats fearfully passionate. 1959 G. Heyer Unknown Ajax v. 72 My father being killed almost before I was out of long coats, there was no one to tell me anything about my family. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [noun] > wearing other clothing > one who Court-mantlec1367 Sunday citizen1598 longcoat1603 lettice ruffa1625 silkworma1625 copester1637 short-coat1649 Scotch-sleeve?1706 Evite1713 uniform1786 nude1810 blue-stockinged1818 waistcoateer1825 padder1828 stook of duds1834 bloomer1851 sleeve1851 shirt1860 shirtwaister1900 DJ1926 rat-catcher1928 sweater girl1940 zoot-suiter1942 Edwardian1954 penguin1967 overcoat1969 1603 T. Dekker et al. Patient Grissill sig. C Far. Yet he doth but as manie of his brother knights doe, keepe an ordinarie table for him and his long coate follower. Vrc. That long coate makes the master a little king. 1614 R. Tailor Hogge hath lost Pearle iii. sig. E2 Ile laugh shalt see enough, and thou shalt weepe Softly, good long coate, softly. 1629 T. Hobbes tr. Thucydides Eight Bks. Peloponnesian Warre iii. 201 There assemble in thy sight, The long coate Ions with their Children deare. 1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre i. iv. 9 in Wks. II And where hee spi'd a Parrat, or a Monkey, there hee was pitch'd, with all the littl-long-coats about him, male and female. 1655 J. Howell 4th Vol. Familiar Lett. xxxiii. 77 Your frends in Fleetstreet are all well both long-coats and short-coats. 4. A breed of animal (esp. of dog) with a long coat; an animal of such a breed. Frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [noun] > defined by coat shag-hair1598 shough1599 shock1638 shock-dog1673 smooth coat1890 smooth1897 longcoat1953 1953 Daily Herald ((Gulfport & Biloxi, Mississippi) 3 Oct. 12/5 1 Chihuahua (Longcoat), 28 Chihuahua (Smoothcoat). 1987 A. K. Nicholas & M. A. Foy Dachshund i. 10 The Wirehaired Dachshund is a comparatively recent development as compared to the smooths and longcoats. 2006 Newcastle (Austral.) Herald (Nexis) 7 Oct. 7 The current trend towards designer dogs, those small longcoats with a cuteness factor to match their $900 pricetags, is showing up in the HAR [rescue] inventory. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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