单词 | russet-coated |
释义 | russet-coatedadj. 1. Wearing a russet coat. Also figurative.In quot. 1596: (figurative) wearing a coat of russet leaves. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing clothing for body (and limbs) > wearing a coat > types of blue-coateda1594 russet-coated1596 grey-coated1597 parti-coated1598 black-coated1600 red-coated1641 greatcoated1748 short-coated1813 frock-coated1850 tail-coated1850 buff-coated1856 overcoated1856 tunicked1876 raincoated1901 trench-coated1923 Crombie-coated1951 slickered1972 1596 R. Linche Dom Diego in Diella sig. E8 With this, hee seekes a russet-coated Tree, & straight disclothes him of his long-worne weed. 1643 O. Cromwell Let. 29 Aug. in Writings & Speeches (1937) (modernized text) I. 256 I had rather have a plain, russet-coated captain that knows what he fights for and loves what he knows, than what you call a gentleman and is nothing else. 1831 Edinb. Lit. Jrnl. 29 Oct. 249/2 They remind us of russet-coated apples, always richer and sweeter than their fairer and smoother brethren. 1872 Headington Parish Mag. 4 4 Faith was..straining her eyes to watch the movements of those russet-coated soldiers. 1906 H. D. Rawnsley Months at Lakes 235 The little russet-coated squirrel..regales himself between his slumbers with beech mast and pine-cone seed. 1950 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 80 63/2 The important techniques are polished red and black ware and cream-painted russet-coated ware. 2001 Daily Post (Liverpool) (Nexis) 16 Oct. 1 The russetcoated raider [sc. a fox], in biting their heads off, would at least ensure a clean kill. 2. Rustic; homely, unsophisticated. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > unaffectedness or naturalness > [adjective] > unsophisticated plainc1425 homelyc1426 homespun1590 brown bread1606 unsophisticate1607 simple1613 uncompounded1615 uncourtlike1659 unsophisticated1665 russet-coated1683 buff1792 unvarnished1827 rube1898 cracker-barrel1933 haimish1957 bakya1960 the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [adjective] > homely or rustic homelya1387 uplandisha1387 hamald?a1400 rustical1483 agrestc1550 fustianc1550 homespun1590 russet1598 agrestic1617 raplocha1628 Adamitic1656 russet-coated1683 rustic1738 turnipy1792 countrified1875 corny1932 bakya1960 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [adjective] churlisha1000 ruric1488 rural1513 rusticalc1525 peasant1550 peasantly1569 clownish1570 rustic1576 shepherdly1579 russet1598 clownical1614 clown-likea1640 nut-brown1648 countrified1653 high-shoon1654 Corydonical1656 high-shod1656 sylvatic1661 villatic1671 russet-coated1683 one-gallus1881 one-gallused1887 red-necked1896 rube1898 takhaar1899 backwoodsya1910 swede-bashing1936 backwoodish1946 1683 T. Tryon Way to Health 394 As great content and satisfaction with his poor Russet-Coated Wife, as the greatest Prince with his Gayest Bride. 1832 Edinb. Rev. July 339 The speaker in question..is, indeed, a quite unmonied, russet-coated speaker. 1867 T. Carlyle Reminisc. (1881) II. 31 It looks to me now like a kind of humble russet-coated epic. 1939 T. Scudder Jane Welsh Carlyle vi. 39 What a delightful russet-coated idyl that stay at Hoddam Hill had been! 1990 Hist. Jrnl. 33 652 A similar polarity—of galvanizing, russet-coated ‘energy’ as opposed to enervating, upper-crust ‘privilege’—marks out Commons and Lords. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1596 |
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