| 单词 | bone-lace maker |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbone-lace maker General attributive and objective, as bone-lace maker, bone-lace trade, bone-lace weaver, etc. ΚΠ 1597 in J. T. Murray Eng. Dramatic Companies (1910) II. 377 Roger Clarke, of Nottyngham, bondlace wever. 1610 in H. Stocks Rec. Borough Leicester (1923) IV. 101 To Daniell Wright Bonelacemaker xli. 1632 R. Boyle Diary 16 Apr. in Lismore Papers (1886) 1st Ser. III. 136 I gaue..to the bonelace woman xs, to apparell a poore begging girle owt of Mounster, & teache her to make bonelace. 1715 tr. C. de Renneville French Inquisition 160 A Bone-Lace Weaver of Roan, her Hair like the Golden Noble, her Skin as white as Milk. 1794 H. Wansey Jrnl. 11 May in Jrnl. Excursion to U.S. (1796) 48 There is also..a large bone-lace manufactory, employing near an hundred cushions. 1848 Express 31 Jan. 2/5 The overtasked artisan and the tambouring girl or bone-lace knitter. 1873 Notts. Guardian 26 Sept. 6/6 Before the invention of the frame, a considerable number of the females in Notts. were engaged in what I have heard spoken of as the bone lace trade. 1922 N.Y. Times 23 Aug. 1/4 (advt.) A bone lace and shoe lace factory in Vorarlberg..seeks..well-introduced representative. 2007 Your Family Tree July 35/4 In Elizabethan times..women and children were able to earn considerably more in bone lace making than their male counterparts could in agriculture. < as lemmas |
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