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单词 saxony
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Saxonyn.

Brit. /ˈsaksəni/, /ˈsaksn̩i/, U.S. /ˈsæksəni/
Etymology: < Saxony, the name of a former kingdom of Germany (in German Sachsen , in French Saxe ), < late Latin Saxonia , the country of the Saxons, < Saxon- Saxon n. and adj.In Middle English the name of the country appears in the forms Saxon, Saxoyne, Sexone, Sessoyne (after Old French Saxoine, Sessoyne); the similar use of Saxon in Chapman's Alphonsus (a1634) may be from the modern German Sachsen.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.

Etymology: ? < Saxon n. and adj. + -y suffix1.
Obsolete. rare.
= Saxonish adj.
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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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