单词 | barbet |
释义 | † barbetn.1 Obsolete. 1. A small beard or (?) barbel. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > covering or skin > [noun] > coat > hair, wool, or fur > beard beardeOE barbet1606 1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 114 (margin) Being skaly and having a couple of barbets. 2. = barb n.1 3. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > neck-wear > [noun] > clothing for neck and other parts > wimple wimplea1100 barbetc1320 barbc1374 gorgerc1400 gorget?1578 c1320 Pol. Songs. 154 The bout and the barbet wyth frountel shule feȝe. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2021). barbetn.2 1. A little dog with long curly hair, a poodle. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > other types of dog > [noun] > poodle water dogc1400 shock1638 shock-dog1673 poodle1773 barbet1780 poodle dog1805 1780 W. Coxe Acct. Russ. Discov. 236 Hounds, grey-hounds, barbets. 1801 H. M. Williams Sketches Manners French Republic II. xxxvi Amidst those piles of corpses..was a little barbet-dog. 1834 W. Beckford Italy; with Sketches Spain & Portugal II. 279 Fleeces..as silky as the hair of a barbet. ΚΠ 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. 3. A family of birds, found in warm countries, distinguished by a short conical bill, with tufts of bristles at its base. (In French, barbu.) ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Piciformes > [noun] > family Capitonidae (barbet) barbet1824 tiger-bird1825 thick-head1837 1824 W. J. Burchell Trav. Interior S. Afr. I. 318 Little noisy barbet, which the Hottentots call Hout Kapper (wood cutter). 1880 A. R. Wallace Island Life ii. 27 Barbets are gaily-coloured fruit-eating birds. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1c1320n.21753 |
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