small waren.

Brit.

/ˈsmɔːl wɛː/, U.S.

/ˈsmɔl ˌwɛ(ə)r/,

/ˈsmɑl ˌwɛ(ə)r/

Forms: see small adj. and n.² and ware n.³

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: small adj., ware n.³

Etymology: < small adj. + ware n.³Attested earlier as a surname: Robertus Smalware (1185), although this probably has reference to a person associated with small items of merchandise more generally, rather than specifically with small items of haberdashery (compare sense 1a); compare likewise the following:1473 in D. M. Owen Making of King's Lynn (1984) 263 For londyng and housyng of allmaner small waar that ys to saye countyrs chestys trayes.

a. Chiefly in plural. Small items of haberdashery; items of tape, cord, braid, etc. Occasionally in singular used collectively.In quot. 1567 in figurative context (cf. sense 2).

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > merchandise > [noun] > types of textile goods

merceryc1300

mercery ware1377

haberdasha1529

small ware1567

tailory1610

dry goods1657

woollen-drapery1688

soft goods1798

wallflower1804

linendrapery1849

hog round1910

1567 J. Rastell Briefe Shew False Wares ii. f. 27^v Your ministers, of whom yet euerie one..goeth with his fardell about him, and (like a spiritual pedler) setteth foorth his smal wares in open pulpittes, and emong all other pointes, vttereth those of the Popes behauiour, as most gay geare for the brothers and sisters.

1572 T. Wilson Disc. Vsurye f. 6 Huckesters, or chapmen of choyse,..retayling small wares.

1617 J. Minsheu Ἡγεμὼν είς τὰς γλῶσσας: Ductor in Linguas at Habberdasher An Habberdasher of small wares... In London also called a Millenier.

1630 P. Massinger Renegado ii. iii. sig. D3 A great Lady dote vpon A Haberdasher of small wares.

a1690 S. Jeake Λογιστικηλογία (1696) 65 Many small Wares called Habberdashery..are sold by Dozens, Scores, Shocks.

a1704 T. Brown Bantering Declam. in Wks. (1707) I. i. 59 Achilles..fell..into a great Huff with Alexander Magnus, Haberdasher of small Wares.

1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth IV. 216 A spruce Haberdasher first spake me fair, But I would have nothing to do with Small ware.

1764 Jrnl. Votes Gen. Assembly N.Y. 1 631/2 Margaret Westervels..humbly prayed she might be permitted to peddle with small Wares..for the Support of herself, her Husband, and Mother.

1845 J. Saunders Cabinet Pictures of Eng. Life: Chaucer 241 Haberdashers were originally a branch of the mercers; and dealt, like them, in small wares.

1884 Birmingham Daily Post 24 Jan. 3/4 Hosiery, Haberdashery, Smallwares, Wools, &c.

1924 W. P. Crankshaw Weaving xi. 121 Lappets, Swivels, Smallwares and Warp Piles... Lappet and swivel mechanisms are used to produce effects which resemble those obtained by embroidery.

1960 Trade Marks Jrnl. 30 Nov. 1521/1 Narrow fabrics in imitation of velvet being textile smallwares for use as fasteners or fastenings for clothing.

2007 G. Greer Shakespeare's Wife x. 181 Somewhere in an intricate and elastic web of retail trading of small wares, Gilbert Shakespeare plied the haberdasher's trade.

b. Usually in plural (chiefly North American). Any small manufactured items; (in later use) spec. kitchen utensils. Occasionally in singular used collectively.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > manufacture or production > [noun] > manufactured article or product > general types of

small ware1815

special edition1845

stamping1862

run of the mill1876

mass product1922

short run1957

1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 91 It [sc. Lignum-vitæ] is much used by the turner, making excellent castors, handles for tools, and other small ware.

1855 Daily Argus & Democrat (Madison, Wisconsin) 11 June (advt.) We have a general assortment of Hardware, such as Carpenters' Tools, Building materials,..small wares, etc.

1876 Boston Daily Globe 3 Apr. 7/1 Mr. McElroy will exhibit a fine display of druggists' small wares and glass instruments.

1901 Trans. Manch. Assoc. Engineers 1900 159 In their..position as machines for producing small screws, studs and pins, in fact the ‘smallwares’ of engineering construction, they are of great value.

1921 Printers' Ink 13 Oct. 30 (advt.) By kitchen utensils is meant aluminum ware, crockery, tin ware.., broilers, and small ware of all sorts.

1987 Times 30 Nov. 17/4 The firm..was a large-scale manufacturer of all kinds of small wares, from toothpicks and tapersticks to scent bottles and vinaigrettes.

2008 M. Suas Adv. Bread & Pastry (2009) xiv. 554 Efficient cake mixing relies on various small wares, including spatulas, whisks, bowl scrapers, parchment paper, [etc.].

2. In singular used collectively and in plural. In extended use: minor or ephemeral productions.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > non-fiction > [noun] > collective valueless non-fiction

small ware1584

ephemera1751

1584 Briefe Declar. Desires Faithfull Ministers 133 They compell men to buy Bookes of them for 4. pence or 6. pence, which are to deare of a peny or two pence: and not onelye suche small Ware.

1646 J. Bastwick Utter Routing of Army of Independents 248 Hee will never be fit either to make a compleat Independent Country courtier, or an absolute Independent Gentleman, but he shall be a Haberdasher in the small wares of Independency.

a1658 J. Cleveland Wks. (1687) 100 You shall never take a Pamphleteer, one of these Haberdashers of small Wares, without his Videlicets, or his Vtpotes.

1720 J. Swift Let. to Young Poet (1721) 26 Every one knows, Grub-street is a Market for Small-Ware in Wit.

1775 Monthly Rev. Apr. 309 How far it may be worth while to cultivate this small ware of science, under the present diffusion of letters, will bear a question.

1839 Metrop. Mag. Aug. 379 His last work alone would be sufficient to convict him, as it is full of personal details, anecdotes, and such small ware.

1919 Bookman Jan. 643 Journals and diaries, and such small ware—Of making many war books there's no end!

1981 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 12 June c1/1 Tom Thumb's greeting card and anti-Nazi literature from the German underground concealed in packets of tea are just a few of the items displayed in ‘Typographical Small Wares: Ephemera From the Collections’.

Compounds

†C1. attributive. Designating a thing considered lowly, insignificant, or trivial. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1673 Bp. S. Parker Reproof Rehearsal Transprosed 344 Every Mechanick..thinks much of the Doctors Allowance as wanton and superfluous, though it be short of the Returns of his own mean and small-ware Trade.

1762 North Briton No. 19. 60 This pedlar in small-ware politics has taken upon him to abuse the Athenians as a mob.

1774 G. Hardinge Let. 11 July in J. Nichols Illustr. Lit. Hist. 18th Cent. (1818) III. 189 Though my villainies in this way are petty and small-ware doings enough, yet the principle is equally bad and rotten.

C2. General attributive, as small-ware dealer, small-ware merchant, small-ware shop.

ΚΠ

1702 L. Echard Gen. Eccl. Hist. iii. iii. 348 Sometimes he was a Small-Ware Merchant.

1754 C. Denis Select Fables lxxxii. 297 Small-ware dealers.

1816 J. T. James Jrnl. Tour i. 33 At the iron foundery they have acquired an art of casting small ware articles which, I believe, is peculiar to themselves.

1834 Picture of Liverpool 73 Smallware dealer.

1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton I. xiv. 252 I..set up a small-ware shop.

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Smallware-dealer, Smallware-merchant, a shop-keeper who keeps small wares; a merchant who supplies them.

1918 F. Hurst Gaslight Sonatas iv. 141 There followed a week of lesser department stores,..of offices tucked dingily behind lithograph and small-ware shops.

1989 Winnipeg Free Press 22 June 5/6 (advt.) Auction sale of abandoned personal property... Wash basins—toilets—arborite counter tops—plus a large amount of small-ware items too numerous to mention.

2005 Beaver Dec. 56/1 Euphrasie opened a small shop in her new home, working as a seamstress..Success with the neighbours led her to begin offering a variety of ‘smallware’ items for sale.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	small ware
释义	small waren. Brit. /ˈsmɔːl wɛː/, U.S. /ˈsmɔl ˌwɛ(ə)r/, /ˈsmɑl ˌwɛ(ə)r/ Forms: see small adj. and n.² and ware n.³ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: small adj., ware n.³ Etymology: < small adj. + ware n.³Attested earlier as a surname: Robertus Smalware (1185), although this probably has reference to a person associated with small items of merchandise more generally, rather than specifically with small items of haberdashery (compare sense 1a); compare likewise the following:1473 in D. M. Owen Making of King's Lynn (1984) 263 For londyng and housyng of allmaner small waar that ys to saye countyrs chestys trayes. 1. a. Chiefly in plural. Small items of haberdashery; items of tape, cord, braid, etc. Occasionally in singular used collectively.In quot. 1567 in figurative context (cf. sense 2). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > merchandise > [noun] > types of textile goods merceryc1300 mercery ware1377 haberdasha1529 small ware1567 tailory1610 dry goods1657 woollen-drapery1688 soft goods1798 wallflower1804 linendrapery1849 hog round1910 1567 J. Rastell Briefe Shew False Wares ii. f. 27^v Your ministers, of whom yet euerie one..goeth with his fardell about him, and (like a spiritual pedler) setteth foorth his smal wares in open pulpittes, and emong all other pointes, vttereth those of the Popes behauiour, as most gay geare for the brothers and sisters. 1572 T. Wilson Disc. Vsurye f. 6 Huckesters, or chapmen of choyse,..retayling small wares. 1617 J. Minsheu Ἡγεμὼν είς τὰς γλῶσσας: Ductor in Linguas at Habberdasher An Habberdasher of small wares... In London also called a Millenier. 1630 P. Massinger Renegado ii. iii. sig. D3 A great Lady dote vpon A Haberdasher of small wares. a1690 S. Jeake Λογιστικηλογία (1696) 65 Many small Wares called Habberdashery..are sold by Dozens, Scores, Shocks. a1704 T. Brown Bantering Declam. in Wks. (1707) I. i. 59 Achilles..fell..into a great Huff with Alexander Magnus, Haberdasher of small Wares. 1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth IV. 216 A spruce Haberdasher first spake me fair, But I would have nothing to do with Small ware. 1764 Jrnl. Votes Gen. Assembly N.Y. 1 631/2 Margaret Westervels..humbly prayed she might be permitted to peddle with small Wares..for the Support of herself, her Husband, and Mother. 1845 J. Saunders Cabinet Pictures of Eng. Life: Chaucer 241 Haberdashers were originally a branch of the mercers; and dealt, like them, in small wares. 1884 Birmingham Daily Post 24 Jan. 3/4 Hosiery, Haberdashery, Smallwares, Wools, &c. 1924 W. P. Crankshaw Weaving xi. 121 Lappets, Swivels, Smallwares and Warp Piles... Lappet and swivel mechanisms are used to produce effects which resemble those obtained by embroidery. 1960 Trade Marks Jrnl. 30 Nov. 1521/1 Narrow fabrics in imitation of velvet being textile smallwares for use as fasteners or fastenings for clothing. 2007 G. Greer Shakespeare's Wife x. 181 Somewhere in an intricate and elastic web of retail trading of small wares, Gilbert Shakespeare plied the haberdasher's trade. b. Usually in plural (chiefly North American). Any small manufactured items; (in later use) spec. kitchen utensils. Occasionally in singular used collectively. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > manufacture or production > [noun] > manufactured article or product > general types of small ware1815 special edition1845 stamping1862 run of the mill1876 mass product1922 short run1957 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 91 It [sc. Lignum-vitæ] is much used by the turner, making excellent castors, handles for tools, and other small ware. 1855 Daily Argus & Democrat (Madison, Wisconsin) 11 June (advt.) We have a general assortment of Hardware, such as Carpenters' Tools, Building materials,..small wares, etc. 1876 Boston Daily Globe 3 Apr. 7/1 Mr. McElroy will exhibit a fine display of druggists' small wares and glass instruments. 1901 Trans. Manch. Assoc. Engineers 1900 159 In their..position as machines for producing small screws, studs and pins, in fact the ‘smallwares’ of engineering construction, they are of great value. 1921 Printers' Ink 13 Oct. 30 (advt.) By kitchen utensils is meant aluminum ware, crockery, tin ware.., broilers, and small ware of all sorts. 1987 Times 30 Nov. 17/4 The firm..was a large-scale manufacturer of all kinds of small wares, from toothpicks and tapersticks to scent bottles and vinaigrettes. 2008 M. Suas Adv. Bread & Pastry (2009) xiv. 554 Efficient cake mixing relies on various small wares, including spatulas, whisks, bowl scrapers, parchment paper, [etc.]. 2. In singular used collectively and in plural. In extended use: minor or ephemeral productions. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > non-fiction > [noun] > collective valueless non-fiction small ware1584 ephemera1751 1584 Briefe Declar. Desires Faithfull Ministers 133 They compell men to buy Bookes of them for 4. pence or 6. pence, which are to deare of a peny or two pence: and not onelye suche small Ware. 1646 J. Bastwick Utter Routing of Army of Independents 248 Hee will never be fit either to make a compleat Independent Country courtier, or an absolute Independent Gentleman, but he shall be a Haberdasher in the small wares of Independency. a1658 J. Cleveland Wks. (1687) 100 You shall never take a Pamphleteer, one of these Haberdashers of small Wares, without his Videlicets, or his Vtpotes. 1720 J. Swift Let. to Young Poet (1721) 26 Every one knows, Grub-street is a Market for Small-Ware in Wit. 1775 Monthly Rev. Apr. 309 How far it may be worth while to cultivate this small ware of science, under the present diffusion of letters, will bear a question. 1839 Metrop. Mag. Aug. 379 His last work alone would be sufficient to convict him, as it is full of personal details, anecdotes, and such small ware. 1919 Bookman Jan. 643 Journals and diaries, and such small ware—Of making many war books there's no end! 1981 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 12 June c1/1 Tom Thumb's greeting card and anti-Nazi literature from the German underground concealed in packets of tea are just a few of the items displayed in ‘Typographical Small Wares: Ephemera From the Collections’. Compounds †C1. attributive. Designating a thing considered lowly, insignificant, or trivial. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1673 Bp. S. Parker Reproof Rehearsal Transprosed 344 Every Mechanick..thinks much of the Doctors Allowance as wanton and superfluous, though it be short of the Returns of his own mean and small-ware Trade. 1762 North Briton No. 19. 60 This pedlar in small-ware politics has taken upon him to abuse the Athenians as a mob. 1774 G. Hardinge Let. 11 July in J. Nichols Illustr. Lit. Hist. 18th Cent. (1818) III. 189 Though my villainies in this way are petty and small-ware doings enough, yet the principle is equally bad and rotten. C2. General attributive, as small-ware dealer, small-ware merchant, small-ware shop. ΚΠ 1702 L. Echard Gen. Eccl. Hist. iii. iii. 348 Sometimes he was a Small-Ware Merchant. 1754 C. Denis Select Fables lxxxii. 297 Small-ware dealers. 1816 J. T. James Jrnl. Tour i. 33 At the iron foundery they have acquired an art of casting small ware articles which, I believe, is peculiar to themselves. 1834 Picture of Liverpool 73 Smallware dealer. 1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton I. xiv. 252 I..set up a small-ware shop. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Smallware-dealer, Smallware-merchant, a shop-keeper who keeps small wares; a merchant who supplies them. 1918 F. Hurst Gaslight Sonatas iv. 141 There followed a week of lesser department stores,..of offices tucked dingily behind lithograph and small-ware shops. 1989 Winnipeg Free Press 22 June 5/6 (advt.) Auction sale of abandoned personal property... Wash basins—toilets—arborite counter tops—plus a large amount of small-ware items too numerous to mention. 2005 Beaver Dec. 56/1 Euphrasie opened a small shop in her new home, working as a seamstress..Success with the neighbours led her to begin offering a variety of ‘smallware’ items for sale. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1567
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