单词 | scotch cap |
释义 | Scotch capn. 1. A Scottish cap of thick, firm woollen cloth, without a brim, typically decorated with two tails or streamers and a pompom (or ‘toorie’), and chiefly worn by men. Cf. earlier Scottish cap n. at Scottish adj. and n. Compounds 3.Types of Scotch cap include the glengarry and the Balmoral (see those entries), both of which are now chiefly worn by military regiments, or as part of formal Highland dress. Cf. also tam-o'-shanter n. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > cap > types of > made from specific material > woollen Scottish cap1553 blue bonnet1568 blue capa1586 Scotch cap1591 statute cap1598 Monmouth1638 Scotch bonnet1641 Highland bonnet1724 Welsh wig1797 scone1820 glengarry1841 beret1850 Balmoral1857 tam-o'-shanter1884 toboggan cap1886 tammy1894 tam1895 toboggan1907 tam1972 1591 E. Spenser Prosopopoia in Complaints sig. M2 Vpon his head an old Scotch cap he wore. 1595 W. S. Lamentable Trag. Locrine iv. ii. 20 (stage direct.) Enter Strumbo with a pitchforke and a scotch-cap. 1676 J. Sterpin tr. L. J. Debes Færoœ v. 271 Married Women weare all red knitted caps without rolls; they hide but a half part of the head, being circle round, arising directly as the head, like antient Bonnets, or Scotch caps. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. i. 8 He beareth Or, a Bonet (or Scotch Benet, or Scotch Cap) Azure. 1847 H. Melville Omoo lxi. 291 I was obliged to mount an abominable wad of parti-colored worsted—what sailors call a Scotch cap. 1889 W. C. Russell Marooned III. iii. 109 Nothing was wanting to him but his Scotch cap. 1907 W. M. Webb Heritage of Dress vi. 53 The child's sailor hat and the Scotch cap are among the modern head coverings which retain the strings. 1957 E. R. Belmont Fabric of Memory 239 He appeared resplendent in full-dress uniform, wearing his Scotch cap with a long, floating eagle feather. 1995 Duluthian (Nexis) May 32 Ambassadors marched in parades held in other towns, including..the Minneapolis Aquatennial. ‘I remember they wore red Mackinaws and red Scotch caps,’ Bob, Jr. said. 2. North American. Any of several similar plants of the genus Rubus (family Rosaceae); esp. the salmon berry, Rubus parviflorus, and the wild black raspberry, Rubus occidentalis; (also) the raspberry-like fruit produced by these plants. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant producing edible berries > cloudberry or salmon berry bush cloudberry1597 knotberry1633 mountain bramble1728 baked apple1750 averin1768 noop1817 Scotch cap1828 salmon berry1844 queen's berry1854 1828 H. G. Rogers Jrnl. 21 May in H. C. Dale Ashley-Smith Explor. (1918) 245 The under brush, hazle, oak, briars, currents, goose berry, and Scotch cap bushes. 1856 Hutchings' Calif. Mag. Aug. 82/1 The ground is covered with a luxuriant growth of underbrush, among which are wild gooseberries, currants, strawberries, and thousands of little berries—what we at home called Scotch-caps—a kind of raspberry. 1870 Riverside Mag. July 321/2 Beside it they found their first berries,—black and red raspberries, and thimble-berries, or Scotch caps. 1919 Amer. Catholic Q. Rev. Jan. 419 The black raspberry (rubus occidentalis) of North America is called thimble-berry, scotch cap and blackcap. 2008 Nelson (British Columbia) Daily News (Nexis) 6 Feb. (Community section) 2 Any hiker who has blundered into a patch of devil's club knows the meaning of ‘horridum’. At first glance it looks like the friendly and generous scotch cap bushes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022). > as lemmasScotch cap e. With some qualifying word, indicative of shape, origin, or character; as black cap n.; college cap, square cap, that worn by academics, which in its present shape is also popularly styled trencher cap, or mortarboard, and in its earlier form is called in Scottish Universities the John Knox cap (see also catercap n.); forked cap, a mitre; †great cap (see quot.); †Monmouth cap (see quot. a1661 at sense 4a): Scotch cap, the cloth cap worn with the Highland dress; also various recent modifications of that pattern; †spiced cap, ? a cap lined with a blister for the head; †statute cap, a cap of wool ordered by statute (see quot. 1571) to be worn by citizens on holydays for the benefit of the cappers' trade; hence, cap of wool, taken as the mark of a tradesman or citizen. Also cricket-cap, polo-cap, football-cap. And see catercap n., nightcap n., skull-cap n., etc. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > vestments > headgear > [noun] > mitre mitrec1390 forked cap?1521 tulipa1879 ?1521 A. Barclay Bk. Codrus & Mynalcas sig. Biv With forked cappes, it folly is to mell. 1571 Act 13 Eliz. xix Euery person..shall wear vpon the Sabbath and holy day..vpon their head a Cap of Wooll knit thicked and dressed in England. 1582 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 430 Scottyshe cappes partelie colored. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 281 Well, better wits haue worne plaine statute Caps . View more context for this quotation 1605 J. Marston Dutch Courtezan iii. i Though my husband be a Citizen and's caps made of wooll, yet I ha wit. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iv. vii. 98 The Welchmen did good seruice..wearing Leekes in their Monmouth caps . View more context for this quotation 1689 R. Davies Jrnl. (1857) 51 It was concluded..to put on a spiced cap by order of Dr. Willis for amaurosis. 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 193 Sampson..was an enemy..to the square cap. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Churchmen, and the Members of Universities..wear Square Caps. 1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. i. xi. 34 Philosophers in square caps and long gowns. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Cap or great Cap, a denomination of a kind of compendious bandage, serving for almost all occasions of the head, being in figure not unlike a helmet. 1873 Edinb. Univ. Cal. 1873–4 174 Cap of black silk velvet after the John Knox fashion. 1885 Cornhill Mag. July Court Royal A silk cassock, red hood, and college cap. < n.1591 as lemmas |
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