单词 | neckcloth |
释义 | neckclothn. 1. A cloth worn round the neck (usually by a man); a cravat, neckerchief. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > neck-wear > [noun] > neckerchief neckerchiefc1384 kerchiefc1400 neckercher1466 neckinger1573 napkin1590 neckcloth1598 neck-handkerchief1642 squeeze clout1795 throat cloth1871 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Panno collo, a neck-cloth. 1638 in Arch. Maryland (1887) IV. 30 The Inventory of John Bryants goods [includes]... 2. neckclothes... 1 band... 1 cap. 1686 London Gaz. No. 2170/4 An open Flanders.lac'd Neckcloth. 1700 T. Pitt Let. 11 Feb. in W. Hedges Diary (1889) III. p. lxii I made a tryall of making some neck cloths here. 1721 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius 1 Mar. His Man..puffs out his Neckcloth with as smart an Air as Mr. Any-body. 1784 Biographia Britannica (ed. 2) III. Corrigenda & Add. at Betterton His countenance..turned..as pale as his neckcloth. 1810 Splendid Follies II. 111 How she had tied her neck-cloth so natty, was quite a string of perplexities. a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) II. 65 In his neckcloth's studied fold Sat Fashion. 1888 Mrs. H. Ward Robert Elsmere II. ii. xvii. 75 He wore an old-fashioned neck-cloth. 1942–7 R. Jeffers Coll. Poetry (1991) II. 269 A hawk-faced young man with a silvered bridle and a red neck-cloth..went up the canyon. 1969 A. S. Byatt in Passions of Mind (1993) xvi. 262 He had clean, starched neckcloths, perfectly cut plain clothes,..and, unusually, he washed. 1991 R. Goldstein Dark Sister ix. 161 The scalding tears that streamed..down a face disfigured by emotion and into a linen neckcloth. 2. colloquial and poetic. A hangman's rope or noose. Now rare. Cf. necklace n. 2a. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > [noun] > gallows > parts of > noose or rope ropeeOE withec1275 cordc1330 snarea1425 tippet1447 girnc1480 halter1481 widdie1508 tether?a1513 hemp1532 Tyburn tippet1549 John Roper's window1552 neckweed1562 noose1567 horse-nightcap1593 tow1596 Tyburn tiffany1612 piccadill1615 snick-up1620 Tyburn piccadill1620 necklacea1625 squinsy1632 Welsh parsley1637 St. Johnston's riband1638 string1639 Bridport daggera1661 rope's end1663 cravat1680 swing1697 snecket1788 death cord1804 neckclothc1816 St. Johnston's tippet1816 death rope1824 mink1826 squeezer1836 yard-rope1850 necktie1866 Tyburn string1882 Stolypin's necktie1909 widdieneckc1920 c1816 W. Maher in J. S. Farmer Musa Pedestris (1896) 79 Fa the neckcloth I don't care a button, And by this time to-morrow you'll see Your Larry will be dead. 1836 F. Mahony Reliques Father Prout II. 115 ‘Hould your tongue in that matter,’ says he; ‘For the neckcloth I don't care a button.’ 1837 F. B. Head Narrative (1839) viii. 208 What could they be worth to him but a hempen neck-cloth? 1902 W. B. Yeats Cathleen ni Hoolihan 18 Yellow haired Donough is dead; With a hempen rope for a neckcloth And a white cloth on his head. Derivatives ˈneckclothed adj. wearing a neckcloth (also figurative). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing neckwear collaredc1405 barbeda1529 ruffed1548 wimpled1579 quilled-up1694 starch-ruffed1783 cravatted1801 neckclothed1825 bandanaed1831 boa'd1831 black-tied1848 mufflered1859 white-collared1860 chokered1865 comfortered1880 tied1911 society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > [adjective] > hanged yhongeOE hanged1470 patibulated1656 gibbeted1756 neckclothed1825 sus. per coll.1827 1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. II. 36 The smiling, rosy-faced, well-powdered, neat-neck-clothed Mr. Abberly, and Miss Anstruther. 1833 E. Bulwer-Lytton Godolphin I. vii. 62 In the panoply of neckclothed silence. 1864 Mattie, a Stray I. 133 White neckclothed servility struggled..for the distinction of waiting on her. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmasneck-cloth b. With attribute expressing purpose: as altar-cloth, barm-cloth, board-cloth, bolt-cloth, bolting-cloth, chrism-cloth, loin-cloth, neck-cloth, tablecloth, etc. See these words. ΚΠ a800 Corpus Gloss. (O.E.T.) 491 Commisura (= patch) flycticlað. a800 Corpus Gloss. (O.E.T.) 623 Cunae, cildclaðas. c1000 Ælfric Gloss. (Wr.-W. 124/30) Cune, cildclaðes. c1000 Ælfric Gloss. (Wr.-W. 127/2) Mappula bearmclað. < n.1598 as lemmas |
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