| 单词 | manchester cotton |
| 释义 | > as lemmasManchester cotton a. attributive. Designating or relating to various cotton goods formerly produced in Manchester, as Manchester cotton, etc. Now rare. ΚΠ 1552 Act 5 & 6 Edw. VI c. 6 §1 All and everie Cottonnes called Manchester Lancashire and Chesshire Cottonnes... And..all Clothes called Manchester Rugges otherwise named Frices. 1580 R. Hitchcock Pollitique Platt sig. Fij At Rone in Fraunce..be solde our Englishe wares, as Welche and Manchester Cottons [etc.]. 1654 in D. Yaxley Researcher's Gloss. Hist. Documents E. Anglia (2003) 128 One peece of Manchester Inckle 20d. 1736 S.-Carolina Gaz. 7 Aug. 3/1 Just imported in the Anna Maria, and to be sold by John Beswicke in Broad street, viz. Silver and Gold Buttons..white and colour'd Manchester Tapes. 1759 Newport (Rhode Island) Mercury 22 May 4/1 Superfine Manchester Velvet of different Colours, Cotton and Linen Handkerchiefs, 3–4 and 7–8 Checks, Dimity, London Quality. 1779 G. W. Beekman Let. 26 July in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) III. 1331 I Shall Send you 2 1/2 Manchester Valet Olive Coller and 4 Quires Paper if to be had. 1794 W. Felton Treat. Carriages I. 41 A strong Manchester tape, called web. 1795 J. Aikin Descr. Country round Manch. 183 When the Manchester trade began to extend. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. i. 16 Manchester cottons and shawls. 1899 Daily News 9 Jan. 2/4 Unlawfully applying a certain false trade description to ‘Manchester linen’. 1949 C. Bullock Rina 70 Most of the stuff I had to present was cheap kaffir truck—Manchester blankets, lembo and suchlike. < as lemmas |
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