单词 | poulters' company |
释义 | > as lemmasPoulters' Company 1. = poulterer n. Now chiefly in Poulters' Company: the name of a livery company of the City of London. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of poultry or game poultera1400 poulterer1534 poultryman1538 turkey-merchant1699 rabbit-o1902 society > occupation and work > business affairs > a business or company > [noun] > companies involved in specific business misbeliefa1450 safeguarda1450 squatc1450 smearc1476 bleach1486 poulterer1534 water company1710 land-company1805 publishing house1819 railway company1824 oil company1827 bus line1843 rails1848 accountancy1860 art house1882 poulter1884 automaker1899 energy company1910 record label1926 label1930 utility1930 re-roller1931 prefabricator1933 seven sisters1962 energy firm1970 chipmaker1971 fragmentizer1972 fixit1984 infomediary1989 multi-utility1994 a1400 in K. W. Engeroff Untersuchung ‘Usages of Winchester’ (1914) 56 (MED) No pulter ne schal bygge..pultrye for to a-ȝen selle er þat vndren be y-ronge. c1475 (a1449) J. Lydgate Order of Fools (Laud) in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 451 (MED) A pulteer that selleth a fat swan For a goselyng that greseth on bareyn clours. 1529 in A. F. Johnston & M. Rogerson Rec. Early Eng. Drama: York (1979) I. i. 250 Comen pulters yat bringyth pultre to this City to selle. 1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 24 To rere vp much pultrie, and want the barne doore, is naught for the pulter, and woorse for the poore. 1622 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman i. 5 Nicholas the fifth was sonne of a Poulter; Sixtus the fift, of a Hog-heard. 1685 S. Wesley Maggots 71 More then a Bustard the Poulter might prize one [sc. a duck]. 1740 Compl. Guide City of London 68/1 Poulters Company, have no Hall. 1884 Rep. London Livery Companies III. 688 The Poulters' Company existed by prescription as early as 1345. It was, however, incorporated by Royal Charter in the 19th year of Henry VII, on 23rd February 1504. 1940 Eng. Hist. Rev. 55 679 In spite of its age and the aforetime importance of its trade, the Poulters' Company has no records earlier than 1587. 1985 Times 14 Sept. 10/3 Mrs. D. Rowe-Ham was present at the annual livery dinner of the Poulters' Company held last night. 2005 Boston Globe (Nexis) 24 July d9 Mrs. Beeton's ‘Book of Household Management’ conjures up an idyllic England with country houses, servants galore, and a large cast of butchers, poulters, and greengrocers. < as lemmas |
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