| 单词 | statute cap |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstatute 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. statute cap statute cap n. British (historical after early 17th cent.) a type of woollen cap ordered by the Act of 13 Eliz. c. 19 (1571) to be worn on Sundays and holidays by all people not of a high social or official rank.The Act, which was intended to support a declining cap-knitting industry, was repealed in 1597. 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 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 281 Better wits haue worne plaine statute Caps . View more context for this quotation 1608 T. Middleton Famelie of Love v. ii. sig. H2 Tis a Law inacted (by the common counsell of Statute Caps) to qualify the rage of the Time. 1995 J. L. Singman Daily Life Elizabethan Eng. vi. 105 It was mandated by law in 1571 that male commoners wear knitted flat caps on Sundays and holidays; for this reason they came to be known as ‘statute caps’. < as lemmas |
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