单词 | shoulder-knot |
释义 | shoulder-knotn. 1. A knot of ribbon or lace, sometimes enriched with jewels, worn on the shoulder by men of fashion in the 17th and 18th centuries; also a knot, formerly of ribbons of the family colours, subsequently of lace, worn on the shoulder by some livery servants; a knot or bow of ribbon worn at the shoulder by a woman or child; also Military = aglet n. 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > trimmings or ornamentation > epaulette or shoulder knot shoulder pointa1627 shoulder-knot1676 epaulette1783 wing1810 tags1837 shell1847 1676 London Gaz. No. 1075/4 Went away from his Master..in a cloth Sute..his Shoulder-knot and Hatband of Twelve-penny broad Ribon figured. 1700 G. Farquhar Constant Couple i. i. 7 Clinch... Sir, (to Wildair) I admire the mode of your Shoulder-knot. 1704 London Gaz. No. 3998/4 A light-grey Cloth Livery lined with yellow, a yellow Shoulder-knot. 1781 W. Cowper Table Talk 44 Better..Then grace the bony phantom..With the king's shoulder-knot and gay cockade. 1861 Ladies' Gaz. Fashion July 6/1 Three-quarter length sleeves, with ribbon shoulder-knots. 1862 Macmillan's Mag. May 17 I have seen..an officer with his shoulder-knots sewed on to a common plain frock-coat. 2. attributive. ΚΠ 1772 J. R. Forster Hudson's Bay Birds in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 62 393 Shoulder-knot Grous. 1819 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. XI. 300 Shoulder-knot Heathcock. (Bonasa Umbellus.) 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xiv. 121 The Park Lane shoulder-knot aristocracy. Derivatives shoulder-knotted adj. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing parts of clothing purfledc1400 weltedc1507 blue1600 buttoned1604 cockaded1713 epauletted1810 shoulder-knotted1812 plumigerous1827 white-favoured1847 buttony1848 scale-shouldered1849 pointed1904 whaleboned1908 ruffly1909 ruched1923 1812 G. Colman Poet. Vagaries 132 A shoulder-knotted Puppy..let him in. 1831 T. Carlyle Schiller in Crit. & Misc. Ess. 1840 III. 4 Such valets as are too genuine, as are shoulder-knotted..in soul as well as in body. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1676 |
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