单词 | not a dry thread on one |
释义 | > as lemmasnot a (one) dry thread on one a. Each of the lengths of yarn which form the warp and woof of a woven fabric; hence, any one of these as an ultimate constituent of such a fabric, and thus of one's clothing; the least part of one's dress; esp. in the phrase not a (one) dry thread on one. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > least part of threadc1200 steek1771 stitch1818 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > woven > thread(s) threadc1200 strand1827 c1200 Vices & Virt. 39 Ðar behoued to maniȝe þreades ær hit bie full wroht. c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr.) i. pr. i. 2 Hyr clothes weeren maked of riht delye thredes. c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 316 Ilche þreed of siche cloþis þat ben tuo wast & too costliche. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. xiv. 23 Fro a threed of the weeft vnto a garter of an hoos I shal not take of alle thingis that ben thin. 1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur xv. ii. 699 It shalle not lye in your power nor to perysshe me as moche as a threde. 1550 J. Veron Godly Saiyngs sig. G.viii Howe can you..come to this roial feast and banket, not hauing one thrid of this wedding rayment..vpon you? 1578 G. Best True Disc. Passage to Cathaya iii. 28 He that hadde fiue or sixe shifts of apparell, hadde scarce one drie threede to his backe. 1598 Floure & Leafe in T. Speght Wks. G. Chaucer f. 367v/1 The ladies ne the knights nade o threed Dry on them. 1612 B. Jonson Alchemist iii. ii. sig. F4 Your threescore minutes Were at the last thred . View more context for this quotation 1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture III. 13/2 I take a veil made of the finest threds..: this I divide into..squares..by some bigger threds parallel to each other. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering III. i. 20 There will no be a dry thread amang us or we get the cargo out. 1844 G. Dodd Textile Manuf. Great Brit. vi. 201 Plain silks, as well as most woven fabrics, consist of threads crossing each other at right angles. 1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life 133 The costume is true to a thread. 1908 in Westm. Gaz. 1 Apr. 12/1 Till April's dead, change not a thread. < as lemmas |
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