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单词 penistone
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penistonen.

Brit. /ˈpɛnɪst(ə)n/, U.S. /ˈpɛnəst(ə)n/
Forms: 1500s penestone, 1500s pennestone, 1500s penniestone, 1500s–1600s penyston, 1500s–1700s pennystone, 1500s– penistone, 1500s– pennistone, 1600s–1700s penniston, 1600s–1700s 1900s– peniston; also Scottish pre-1700 pennestane, pre-1700 pennistone, pre-1700 pennystane.
Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Penistone.
Etymology: < Penistone, the name of a small town in South Yorkshire, where the cloth was made.
1. A kind of coarse woollen cloth used for garments, linings, etc.; a (piece of) cloth of this kind. Now historical.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from wool > [noun] > coarse or rough
russeta1300
cogware1389
molton1545
forest-white1551
penistone1551
pinwhite1604
duroy1619
duffel1649
long ell1706
duffel cloth1787
flushing1812
bull's wool1850
1551–2 Act 5 & 6 Edw. VI c. 6 §1 Clothes commonlye called Pennystones or Forest Whites..shall conteyne in lengthe beinge wett betwixt twelve and thirtene yardes.
1576 G. Baker tr. C. Gesner Newe Jewell of Health i. f. 21 A Bagge..of whyte Woollen cloth (whether the same be Pennystone or Karsie).
1616 in Rep. Comm. Inq. Charities (1834) XXIX. 731 40s. to be laid out in red peniston for four petticoats.
1686 S. Sewall Let.-bk. I. 31 I received yours per Mr. Clark with the cottons and penistons and ½ doz. books.
1741 in New Jersey Archives XII. 102 He had on..a brown Kersey Wastecoat lined with red Peniston.
1751 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer at Sturbridge (Camb.) Abundance of cloths,..kerseys, cottons, penistons, and fustians, are brought to it from Yorkshire and Lancashire.
1893 Cent. Mag. Dec. 258/1 For the women there were a skirt and waistcoat of penistone, a blue apron, a linen smock, two linen caps, shoes and stockings, and three barrel of Indian corn.
1938 Geogr. Jrnl. 91 343 Mr. Beaver's reference to pennistones is most interesting. Penistone is an old parish at the head of the Don valley.
1989 D. H. Fischer Albion's Seed 547 One variety, called penistone, was a coarse woolen fabric named after a village in Yorkshire.
2. A type of sandstone quarried around Penistone; = Penistone flag n. at Compounds 2. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > sedimentary rock > [noun] > sandstone > others
firestone1399
hassock1461
red stone1602
penistone1688
bluestone1709
gingerbread1714
brownstone1780
molasse1794
Old Red Sandstone1805
chip sand1808
fox-bench1816
New Red Sandstone1818
grey band1824
arkose1839
cankstone1845
St. Bees Sandstone1865
pietra serena1873
Ham Hill stone1889
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 111/1 Rough Stone, or Penny Stone..are rough cut out of the Quarry.

Compounds

C1. General attributive, as penistone blue, penistone petticoat, penistone white, etc. Obsolete.
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1551 in R. H. Tawney & E. Power Tudor Econ. Documents (1924) II. 192 Penyston whytes were then solde at xvs...the pece.
1592–3 in G. P. McNeill Exchequer Rolls Scotl. (1903) XXII. 309 Pennestane grene freeis.
1656 in New-Eng. Historical & Geneal. Reg. (1850) IV. 125 It is my will yt my cousine Elizabeth fich have my searge gowne, and my Read penniston petticote.
1685 East-Hampton Rec. II. 172 Send mee..Peniston Blewe Linning.
1836 M. Scott Cruise of Midge xix. 345 Poor, drenched, stormstaid devils, in their blue pennistone greatcoats, shivering on the opposite bank.
C2.
Penistone flag n. any of a group of sandstones quarried around Penistone and used for making paving stones (cf. sense 2).
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > stone as material for paving > a paving stone > others
pennant flag1756
fairy pavements1787
Purbeck1833
coffin-stone1845
Penistone flag1878
1878 A. H. Green et al. Geol. Yorks. Coal-field ii. §3. 77 The Penistone Flags are a group of very variable sandstones, with a few thin and poor coals. They are best developed around Penistone, and may be traced thence southwards to Sheffield.
1998 Guardian (Nexis) 31 Jan. 20 All over this eastern flank of the highest ground are outcroppings of the Lower Coal Measures, containing so much valuable building stone and roofing flags—Greenmoor Rock, Grenoside Sandstone, Penistone Flag.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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