单词 | saxony |
释义 | Saxonyn. Used attributively to designate products of Saxony: esp. 1. a. A fine kind of wool, and cloth made from it. Also absol. = Saxony-cloth. Several distinct kinds of fabric are thus designated: Saxony coating n. Saxony wool made in coating styles. Saxony flannel n. Saxony wool in flannel weight and finish, usually scarlet. Saxony cord n. a black ribbed material with cotton warp and Saxony weft, used for cassocks and academic robes. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > wool > [noun] > type of > other cot1471 wool1608 Lemster ore1610 belta1641 vigone1656 downright1749 stitchel1775 super1797 Saxony1842 lustre1894 snow-white1896 sixties- 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] > made from specific types of wool > from Saxony wool Saxony1842 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [adjective] > woollen Shetland1790 zephyr1809 crewel1887 Saxony1888 quick-knit1935 1842 Punch 3 74/2 House-painters, and others, will obstinately refuse to do their daily work in superfine Saxony. 1844 W. M. Thackeray Box of Novels in Wks. (1900) XIII. 412 His Saxony-cloth surtout. 1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour xi. lxi. 348 Mr. Sponge forthwith proceeded to put his brown boots,..his dress blue saxony, his clean linen,..into his solid leather portmanteau. 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 654/2 Specimens of the finest Saxony wools. b. spec. This wool used in making carpets. Also, a synthetic material resembling Saxony used similarly. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [noun] > woollen > from specific place Shetland1790 Botany yarn1848 Saxony1910 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [noun] > man-made > specific Saxony1910 Helanca1944 Taslan1954 staple yarn1955 Crimplene1959 Thermolactyl1959 Terital1960 Tencel1967 1910 S. Humphries Oriental Carpets iv. 300 Saxony Pile Carpets.—Made in precisely the same way as the Brussels variety... The Saxony Brussels and Saxony Velvet yarns. 1924 R. Beaumont Carpets & Rugs viii. 298 Examples in Saxony or the longer variety of ‘velvet’ carpet... In..Saxony velvets the design and colour element may be as clearly delineated as in Wiltons. 1933 Heal & Son Catal. Carpet..; seamless ‘Saxony’, various colours. 1976 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 3 Oct. 3/3 (advt.) A well~constructed, full-bodied saxony nylon that is versatile and long-wearing. 2. Saxony blue n. a solution of indigo in concentrated sulphuric acid, much used as a dye. Also Saxon blue at Saxon adj. 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > blue colouring matter > [noun] > dyes and dyestuffs > other dyes stone-blue1675 starch blue1742 Saxon blue1753 fig-blue1786 chemic1792 Turkey blue1815 Paris blue1835 Saxony blue1857 soluble blue1879 methylene blue1882 indoin1884 phenylene blue1884 indamine1888 Nile blue1888 gallamine blue1889 neutral blue1889 chrome-blue1892 toluidine blue1898 indanthrene1901 Saxe blue1905 trypan blue1911 mandarin blue1912 1857 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. III. 616. 1863 Chambers's Encycl. V. 559/1. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † Saxonyadj. Obsolete. rare. = Saxonish adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > Old English Saxony1565 English-Saxon1566 Old English?1566 Saxon1589 Anglo-Saxonic1672 Anglo-Saxona1675 Saxonic1678 1565 J. Hall in tr. Lanfranc Most Excellent Woorke Chirurg. Ep. Ded. sig. ⁋ j Whiche was translated out of Frenche into the olde Saxony englishe, about twoo hundred yeres past. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < |
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