| 单词 | patent rubber |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspatent rubber patent rubber n. any of various kinds of vulcanized sheet rubber, typically used to make manufactured articles, esp. clothing; chiefly attributive. ΚΠ 1837 W. E. Burton Burton's Comic Songster 37 O! The rubber, the patent rubber; the wonderful Indian rubber. 1844 Cleveland (Ohio) Herald 27 Sept. (advt.) Patent Rubber lined Buskins, sheet rubber sandals and fur bound and lined Rubbers. 1889 Science 1 Feb. 86/2 The milk was in a pint beer-bottle with patent rubber stopper. 1903 J. G. McIntosh tr. T. Seeligmann et al. Indiarubber & Gutta Percha xii. 250 By patent rubbers is always meant those which are prepared from the sawn sheet, or the English sheet, cut by the saw from blocks of normal rubber. 1934 R. Campbell Broken Rec. viii. 189 A famous savant completely attached to his spectacles, paddling about in a little patent rubber boat. 2000 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 12 Feb. 13 You're wearing a canary yellow boa, a red sequinned bra, and a pair of patent rubber hot pants. What one thing would you add to customise the look? < as lemmas |
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