| 单词 | barber's basin |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbarber's basin barber's basin n. a wide, broad-edged bowl, typically made of brass, pewter, or tin-glazed earthenware, with a semicircular opening in the rim designed to fit against a man's throat while he is shaved by a barber (now historical). Also, in later use: a washbasin with a notch in the edge to accommodate a person's neck while his or her hair is being washed (more commonly called a backwash basin).Basins of the earlier type may also have been used by barber-surgeons to catch blood during bloodletting. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > implements used in styling the hair > [noun] > basin or dish trimming-basin1683 barber's basin1755 sud-dish1892 a1400 MS Trin. Cambr. O.9.39 in Crafte of Lymmyng (2016) 32 (MED) Make hote watre on the fire, and put yn a good large bolle or ells ain a barbers basyn þat be clene. 1572 J. Higgins Huloet's Dict. (new ed.) sig. Dii/2 Basin that a barber vseth, a barbers basin, Concha, vel peluis tonsoria. 1653 in Proc. Soc. Antiquaries Scotl. 1888–9 (1889) 23 302 One old broken barbour's basine. 1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote I. iii. xi. 164 Who that hears your worship call a barber's bason the helmet of Mambrino..must be very much crazed in his understanding. 1855 New Monthly Mag. Nov. 281 Perfectly beardless, he has, nevertheless, been brought before the magistrate for stealing a barber's basin. 1964 Daily Mail 12 Sept. 8/1 Very very rarely you'll see a barber's pole with a brass barber's basin at the end. 2011 B. Cohn To catch a Catch 47 Mario tilted the comfortable chair backward against the rounded rim of the special barber's basin and began shampooing Brett's hair. < as lemmas |
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