单词 | pinson |
释义 | pinsonn. Now historical. A kind of thin shoe; a slipper or pump. Frequently in plural.Pinsons appear to have become obsolete soon after 1600 and no contemporary description of them is known, although there has been much subsequent conjecture. A. Way in Promp. Parv. (1865) (note) suggests ‘possibly, high and unsoled shoes of thin leather, worn with pattens’. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > shoe > [noun] > types of > light shoe or slipper sockc725 pinson1388 slipper?1478 pantan1489 pump1555 slip-shoe1555 pinsnet1583 pump shoe1689 baff1914 baffie1917 1388 in J. T. Gilbert Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889) I. 128 (MED) [Bartholomew Dullard, for two pairs of shoes and one pair of] pynsonz, [fourteen pence]. 1391 in L. T. Smith Exped. Prussia & Holy Land Earl Derby (1894) 91 (MED) Pro furracione j pair pynsons. c1451 J. Capgrave Life St. Gilbert (1910) 99 (MED) He myte haue a peyre of old sokkys or pinsones whech our maystir had often wered. a1475 J. Shirley Death James (BL Add. 5467) in Miscellanea Scotica (1818) II. 15 (MED) The Kyng..ther stondyng in his nyght gowne..his furrid pynsons upon the forme, and the foote sheet. 1503 in Cal. Documents Scotl. (1888) 341 [Six pair of slippers with] pynsons [to same]. 1599 J. Minsheu Percyvall's Dict. Spanish & Eng. at Xervilla A pumpe or pinsen to weare in pantofles. 1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 147 Now and then was he also seene shod with womens pumps [margin] or pinsones. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Pinson or Pump, or a sort of Shoe without Heels. 1901 Westm. Gaz. 22 Feb. 10/1 A Regent Master..was bound..to wear heelless shoes, called ‘pynsons’. 1960 C. W. Cunnington et al. Dict. Eng. Costume 165/2 Pinson, a light indoor shoe, the earlier ones often furred. In 16th c. often worn with a protective overshoe. 1991 E. S. Connell Alchymist's Jrnl. (1992) 144 An unctuous Spaniard stroking a tidy mustache, velour cap overlaid in gold..velvet upperstocks, pantafels and pynsons. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1388 |
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