单词 | pimlico |
释义 | † Pimlicon.1 Obsolete. 1. A type of strong ale brewed at the Pimlico Tavern in Hoxton in the first decade of the 17th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > ale > [noun] > other ales strawberry ale1523 red ale1557 sixteens1584 bottle ale1586 hostler ale1590 Pimlico1609 eyebright1612 quest-ale1681 hugmatee1699 Newcastle brown (ale)1707 pale ale1708 twopenny ale (or beer)1710 twoops1729 flux ale1742 pale1743 Ringwood1759 brown ale1776 light ale1780 blue cap1789 brown1820 India pale ale1837 Tipper1843 ostler ale1861 fourpenny ale1871 four-ale1883 ninepenny1886 Scotch1886 barley wine1940 IPA1953 light1953 real ale1972 1609 (title) Pimlyco, or runne red cap. 'Tis a mad world at Hogsdon.] 1609 Pimlyco sig. C4v Nor can the Greekish Vintage show A liquor matching Pimlyco. 1612 B. Jonson Alchemist v. ii. sig. L2v Gallants..seene to flock here..as to a second Hogs-den, In dayes of Pimlico, and Eye-bright. View more context for this quotation 1631 B. Jonson Divell is Asse iii. iii, in Wks. II. 135 I'll..march vp, And take in Pimlico, and kill the bush, At every tauerne! 1670 in J. Nichols Coll. Poems (1780) III. 263 Or stout March-beer, or Windsor-ale,..Or Pimlico, whose too great sale Did marr it. 2. A kind of drinking vessel, perhaps waisted or marked with a hoop on the inner surface. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] chalicec825 napeOE copc950 fullOE cupc1000 canOE shalec1075 scalec1230 maselin?a1300 mazer1311 richardine1352 dish1381 fiole1382 pece1383 phialc1384 gobletc1400 bowl-cup1420 chalice-cup1420 crusec1420 mazer-cup1434 goddard1439 stoup1452 bicker1459 cowl1476 tankard1485 stop1489 hanapa1513 skull1513 Maudlin cup1544 Magdalene cup?a1549 mazer bowl1562 skew1567 shell1577 godet1580 mazard1584 bousing-can1590 cushion1594 glove1609 rumkin1636 Maudlin pot1638 Pimlico1654 mazer dish1656 mug1664 tumbler1664 souce1688 streaker1694 ox-eye1703 false-cup1708 tankard-cup1745 poculum1846 phiale1867 tumbler-cup1900 stem-cup1915 sippy cup1986 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. vi. 103 No small services nor misers glasses will doe the businesse here, nor Pimplico's discharg'd to the round in the middle. 3. A white fabric used for clothing. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric for specific purpose > [noun] > for clothing > of specific colour Paris black1533 Pimlico1685 Nubian1899 1685 S. Wesley Maggots 79 Courtly Dames so gawdy, tho' They dress their mouths in pimlico. 1687 Honour of Taylors ii. 23 The laughing Fellow, dressed up in Pimlico, as Painters..Picture..the shadow of a Ghost. 1760 J. Hawkins in Walton's & Cotton's Compl. Angler ii. p. xx To bedizen them out in Pimlico, or bloat them up with turgid bombast. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2020). pimlicon.2 Now rare. 1. Audubon's shearwater, Puffinus lherminieri, a small shearwater of tropical parts of the Indian, Pacific, and western Atlantic Oceans, whose head and body are black above and white below. Chiefly Caribbean in later use. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Procellariiformes > [noun] > member of family Procellariidae (petrel) > member of genus Puffinus (shearwater) > other types cohow1615 pimlico1615 mutton-bird1846 Audubon1909 1615 L. Hughes Let. in J. H. Lefroy Mem. Bermudas (1877) II. 578 About the middle of October, Birds which we call Cahouze and Pimlicoes come in. 1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia v. 171 Another small Bird there is, because she cries Pemblyco they call her so. c1625 J. Smith Hist. Bermudaes (1882) 4 Another smale Birde ther is, the which, by some Ale-hanters of London sent ouer hether, hath bin termed the pimplicoe, for so they imagine (and a little resemblance putts them in mind of a place so dearely beloued), her note articulates. 1670 S. Clarke True & Faithful Acct. Four Chiefest Plantations Eng. in Amer. 22 The Pemblico is seldom seen by day, and by her crying foretells Tempests. 1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica i. ii. 3 The Crow, Cock,..Peacock, the Pimlico. 1840 Trans. Geol. Soc. 5 113 The caves..were frequented..by a sea bird, whose local name [in Bermuda], derived from its peculiar cry, is Pim-li-co. 1960 J. Bond Birds W. Indies 18 Audubon's Shearwater Puffinus lherminieri... Local names: Pimlico; [etc.]. 2. Australian. Any of various honeyeaters of the genus Philemon, of northern and eastern Australia; a friarbird. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > [noun] > family Meliphagidae (honey-eater) > genus Philemon (friar bird) friar1798 four o'clock1848 pimlico1848 1848 J. Gould Birds Austral. IV. Pl. 58 From the fancied resemblance of its notes to these words, it has obtained from the Colonists the various names of ‘Poor Soldier’, ‘Pimlico’, ‘Four o'clock’, etc. 1918 Bulletin (Sydney) 2 May 24/3 The bobala has probably more aliases than any other Australian bird, being variously known as friar bird, monk, Pimlico, four o'clock, poor soldier and leatherhead. 1944 L. Welsh Kookaburra 12 Noisy friar birds..have many names—Leatherhead, Monk, Four O'Clock, Pimlico, and Poor Soldier. 1987 Wildlife Austral. Autumn 6/3 Earlier names, some of which are still in popular use, were friar, monk, leather head, poor soldier, four o'clock, and pimlico. The last three names are onomatopoeic, or imitative of the call. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11609n.21615 |
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