单词 | blue gown |
释义 | blue gownn. 1. A blue gown worn as part of a person's uniform; spec. (a) one worn by a convicted prostitute in a house of correction; (b) one worn by a person who is provided for at a charitable institution, or (Scottish) by a licensed beggar. Cf. blue coat n. 1. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > loose clothing > robe or gown > types of > other stolec950 paramentc1385 stolea1387 vestmentc1386 chimer1487 shemewe1517 parliament1537 Turkey gown1558 slop1570 blue gown1578 dolman1585 palliament1593 synthesis1606 vest1613 paramentoa1640 brandenburgh1676 khilat1684 spagnoleta1685 sultanea1685 sultana1693 garter-robes1702 under-robe1725 wrapper1725 stola1728 talar1738 negligée1755 jama1776 dust-gown1802 yukata1822 manga1824 gandoura1851 pheran1851 riga1851 shamma1862 choga1869 kanzu1870 kimono1886 holoku1893 mammy-cloth1952 the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [noun] > beggar > licensed beggar > dress of blue gown1786 1578 G. Whetstone Promos & Cassandra: 1st Pt. iii. vi. sig. D.iijv La. Teare not my clothes my friends, they cost more then you are aware, Be. Tush, soon you shal haue a blew gown. 1630 T. Dekker Second Pt. Honest Whore v. i. 10 Your Puritanicall Honest Whore sits in a blue gowne. 1688 Historian’s Guide (new ed.) 122 His Majesty's Birth-Day was kept with great Solemnity at Edinburgh: Among other things were 50 old Men in Blew Gowns, each of which had given him 50 s. 1700 E. Ward Wealthy Shop-keeper 16 Ten Thousand Pounds I give, which shall, Endow my House of Charity withal: Blue Gowns, Shifts, Coals, and Candles to provide. 1786 R. Burns Poems 219 It's just the Blue-gown badge an' claithing, O' Saunts. 1834 Corporate Offices & Charitable Funds 470 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 460) XLV. 1 To 12 almswomen every second year a blue gown. 1922 G. C. Williamson Curious Survivals xiii. 199 In Guildford, in Surrey, bedesmen who reside at the Hospital of the Blessed Trinity..wear blue gowns, adorned with silver mitres. 2005 M. Seidel in D. Defoe Moll Flanders Endnotes 312 Christ's Hospital..was also known as ‘Bluecoat Hospital’ because the students there wore long blue gowns. 2. A person who wears a blue gown, esp. as part of a uniform; (Scottish) a licensed beggar (the blue gown being a symbol of his or her license to beg). Cf. blue coat n. 2. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [noun] > beggar > licensed beggar gaberlunzie1508 proctor1529 blue coat1583 blue gown1590 badgeman1668 beadsman1793 1590 R. Wilson Three Lordes & Three Ladies London sig. I3, (stage direct.) Returne as they went, sauing that the blew gownes that bare shields, must now beare torches. 1654 in A. Laing Lindores Abbey (1876) 232 Given for the mort cloath to a blewgown. 1673 Common-place-bk. 18 The jealous Fellow in Green-street was not so favourable to the Blew-Gown, whom he caught in that Posture with his Wife. 1744 D. Forbes Considerations Present State Scotl. 10 Tea is become the common Breakfast of Bluegowns and the Fish-carriers of Musselburgh. 1779 Paul Jones i. 4 Paul Jones came by night like a thief, With full nine hundred blue-gowns all begging relief. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. ix. 233 ‘Edie Ochiltree, nae maister—your puir bedesman and the king's,’ answered the Blue-gown. 1856 J. Strang Glasgow & its Clubs 195 Among these [beggars] there might also occasionally be observed one or two Blue Gowns, now altogether unknown, showing their badges and asking alms. 1901 G. Keats Tales of Dunstable Weir 179 Law, he didn't live long as a bluegown. 1997 H. S. Harris Hegel's Ladder ii. 85 Not all Blue Gowns had Edie's securely balanced wisdom of experience. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1578 |
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