单词 | pegtop style |
释义 | > as lemmaspegtop style C1. attributive. Having or suggesting the shape of a pegtop, as pegtop pattern, pegtop style, etc. ΚΠ 1860 All Year Round 29 Sept. 596 Neither would your Angelina love you more dearly were you to have ‘pegtop whiskers’. 1863 C. Dickens Uncommerc. Traveller in All Year Round 12 Sept. 61/1 Round swelling peg-top ricks. 1892 A. C. Gunter Miss Dividends ii. 34 His trousers..are cut in what was then called the ‘peg-top’ pattern. 1894 Daily News 12 Oct. 7/3 The form of trousers inclines to change to the peg-top style. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 482 Those pannier pockets of the skirt and slightly pegtop effect are devised to suggest bunchiness of hip. 1987 Toronto Star (Nexis) 26 Feb. d12 Vogue's long-running bestseller, 2545 by Dior and Burda 6094, a dress and jacket, share the fashionable peg-top cut that uses very modest yardage. < as lemmas |
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