单词 | barracan |
释义 | † barracann. Obsolete (except as alien.) A fabric: originally coarse camlet; latterly in Spain ‘a sort of water-proof cloth of coarse wool or goat's hair’, also ‘the name of a coarse black woollen garment still used in Morocco’ (Marsh). Vaguely employed by European writers (see Du Cange barracanus): in some passages taken as ‘a fine cloth of silk or other delicate material’. See also barragan n. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from choice of fibres > [noun] > camlet > other paragon?c1610 peropus?c1610 barracan1638 camleteen1736 1638 in G. J. Piccope Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1861) III. 206 My petticoate of barracan. 1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto III lxx. 38 The striped white gauze baracan that bound her. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < |
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