nicaneen.

Brit.

/ˌnɪkəˈniː/, U.S.

/ˌnɪkəˈni/

Forms: 1600s niccanneer, 1600s nigganee, 1600s–1800s niccanee, 1700s neccanee, 1700s nicamee, 1700s nicane, 1700s niccannee, 1700s niceanee, 1700s 1900s– nicanee, 1700s 1900s– nicconee. Also with capital initial.

Origin: Of uncertain origin.

Etymology: Origin uncertain. Probably < a vernacular South Asian language, ultimately < Sanskrit nigama marketplace, market-town, fair, trade, merchant. Compare negannepaut n.This is one a group of several Indian fabrics mentioned in 17th- and 18th-cent. sources whose origin is uncertain; compare Chello n., tapseil n. Most of the forms recorded probably represent transcription from speech and subsequent miscopying.

Now historical.

A kind of textile formerly imported from India (perhaps a cheap striped calico); a piece of this. Usually in plural.The importation of nicanee was regarded as a threat to British manufacture, and it was therefore banned from commercial use in Britain from 1700.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric from specific place > [noun]

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1652 Bloudy Fight in France 5 500 Pieces of Nicannees.

1682 London Mercury 25–9 Aug. 2/1 Seven of their East-India Ships are arrived..and their cargo runs thus... 5120 pieces of Niccanees.

1725 London Gaz. No. 6388/2 The following Goods, viz... Bejutapants, Chelloes, Lemanees, Nicanees large, Nicanees small.

1727 W. Mather Young Man's Compan. (ed. 13) 411 Coral, Callicoes, Niccanees, Clouts [etc.].

1788 T. Clarkson Ess. Impolicy Afr. Slave Trade 104 In the second class may be reckoned..Callicoes, Cushtaes, Chintz, Chelloes, Nicamees, Negampants.

1822 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 26 Oct. 3/5 40 bales Madras Goods, as follows:—Comboys, whole and half pieces, Niccanees, Succatoons, Mooreas, Salempores, entitled to debenture.

1988 Amer. Hist. Rev. 93 944 Between 1701 and 1704..a hundredweight of mixed small and large tusks might command half a dozen pieces of nicanee, again an Indian textile.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	nicanee
释义	nicaneen. Brit. /ˌnɪkəˈniː/, U.S. /ˌnɪkəˈni/ Forms: 1600s niccanneer, 1600s nigganee, 1600s–1800s niccanee, 1700s neccanee, 1700s nicamee, 1700s nicane, 1700s niccannee, 1700s niceanee, 1700s 1900s– nicanee, 1700s 1900s– nicconee. Also with capital initial. Origin: Of uncertain origin. Etymology: Origin uncertain. Probably < a vernacular South Asian language, ultimately < Sanskrit nigama marketplace, market-town, fair, trade, merchant. Compare negannepaut n.This is one a group of several Indian fabrics mentioned in 17th- and 18th-cent. sources whose origin is uncertain; compare Chello n., tapseil n. Most of the forms recorded probably represent transcription from speech and subsequent miscopying. Now historical. A kind of textile formerly imported from India (perhaps a cheap striped calico); a piece of this. Usually in plural.The importation of nicanee was regarded as a threat to British manufacture, and it was therefore banned from commercial use in Britain from 1700. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric from specific place > [noun] irislams1375 westvale1383 hinderland1465 ypir?1517 Normandy1529 Ghentish1545 mant1575 Scots cloth1581 northerna1592 turquesques1594 Westphalia1612 nilla1614 phota1616 Norwich stuff1618 Venus1629 nicanee1652 East India1659 caffoy1678 Bengal1681 Mantua1699 coffoy1703 Chello1712 negannepaut1725 Russia drab1741 Wilton1744 toile de Jouy1784 sorting-cloth1847 rum-swizzle1851 sarong1858 Yokohama1879 Turkoman1881 Mexican1883 kanga1895 Milanese1926 leso1961 1652 Bloudy Fight in France 5 500 Pieces of Nicannees. 1682 London Mercury 25–9 Aug. 2/1 Seven of their East-India Ships are arrived..and their cargo runs thus... 5120 pieces of Niccanees. 1725 London Gaz. No. 6388/2 The following Goods, viz... Bejutapants, Chelloes, Lemanees, Nicanees large, Nicanees small. 1727 W. Mather Young Man's Compan. (ed. 13) 411 Coral, Callicoes, Niccanees, Clouts [etc.]. 1788 T. Clarkson Ess. Impolicy Afr. Slave Trade 104 In the second class may be reckoned..Callicoes, Cushtaes, Chintz, Chelloes, Nicamees, Negampants. 1822 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 26 Oct. 3/5 40 bales Madras Goods, as follows:—Comboys, whole and half pieces, Niccanees, Succatoons, Mooreas, Salempores, entitled to debenture. 1988 Amer. Hist. Rev. 93 944 Between 1701 and 1704..a hundredweight of mixed small and large tusks might command half a dozen pieces of nicanee, again an Indian textile. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1652
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