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单词 black-a-lyre
释义

black-a-lyren.

Brit. /ˈblakəlʌɪə/, U.S. /ˈblækəˌlaɪ(ə)r/
Forms:

α. late Middle English blakalyere, late Middle English blakalyr, late Middle English blakalyre, 1800s– black-a-lyre.

β. late Middle English black of lure, late Middle English blac of lyre, late Middle English blake of lyre (in a late copy), late Middle English blak of lure, late Middle English blak of lyre, 1900s– black of lyre.

Origin: From a proper name, combined with English elements. Etymons: black n., of prep., proper name Lyre.
Etymology: < black n. + of prep. + Lyre, the English name of a town in Brabant, now in northern Belgium (Middle Dutch Lier , Liere (Dutch Lier ), Middle French Liere (French Lierre ); compare post-classical Latin Lyra (late 14th cent. or earlier)), where the cloth was originally made. The α. forms show reduction of the preposition of prep. in unstressed position. Compare green of lyre n.Compare Anglo-Norman lyre , lire cloth made in Lier (1415–16 or earlier), noire de lyre (1419 or earlier), lire de noier (a1437 or earlier), Middle French drap de liere , drap de liere noir (both 1420), post-classical Latin niger de lyr (a1438 in a British source), blak de lyre (1421 in a British source; < English). Compare also post-classical Latin blodius de Lyra ‘bluet of Lyre’ and pannus nigrus de Lyra (both 1390–1 in British sources). The following earlier quots. apparently show examples of a word denoting the cloth (in quot. 1414, a cloth made in London) in a vernacular language, although which language is uncertain:1389 in A. H. Thomas Cal. Plea & Mem. Rolls London Guildhall (1932) III. 168 [2 lbs. of] lyure, [12 d.].1414 in A. H. Thomas Cal. Plea & Mem. Rolls London Guildhall (1943) IV. 3 [1 1/2 cloths of better scarlet..2 of black of] lyre..[and 3 rolle of black] fryse [of] lyre [of London make].
Now historical.
In medieval England: a type of black cloth from Lier in Brabant; (also) any cloth resembling this. Cf. green of lyre n.
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1421 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 97 (note) (MED) Togam de Blakalyr medeley.
1421 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 97 (note) Blac of lyre.
1434 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 97 An hode of black of lure, an a hod of blewe.
1459 Inventory Fastolf's Wardrobe in Paston Lett. (1904) III. 176 Item, j. rydynghoode of blakalyere.
1465 in D. Yaxley Researcher's Gloss. Hist. Documents E. Anglia (2003) 17 iiij yerdes and di' of blak a lyr, prise the yerde vs.
1479 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 415 [The mayor of Bristol] in..his skarlat cloke, furred, with his blak a lyre hode, or tepet of blak felwet.
1861 Alphabet. List of Eng. Words (Philol. Soc.) i. 42/2 Black-a-lyre, cloth.
1962 P. M. Kendall Yorkist Age i. i. 78 The mayor..forbade the Corvisors to use fancy trade names like ‘queyres enamelling’ for plain blackalyre cloth.
2003 D. Yaxley Researcher's Gloss. Hist. Documents E. Anglia 17 Black-a-lyre, from Lire or Liere in Brabant; velvety cloth.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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