| 单词 | sumpter cloth | 
| 释义 | > as lemmassumpter cloth   sumpter cloth  n. a cloth or blanket designed to cover the back of a sumpter or packhorse, or its load, and often richly decorated. ΚΠ 1554    Inventory in  J. Hooker Life Sir P. Carew 		(1857)	 App. E. 177  				ij sompter clothes. 1666    London Gaz. No. 97/2  				Thirty seven Mules with their Sumpter-Cloaths nobly embroidered with Gold. 1766    H. Brooke Fool of Quality II. xii. 270  				I have seen an ass clothed in a very gorgeous sumpter-cloth. 1819    W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor viii, in  Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. I. 223  				Without the saddle, being decored wi' the broidered sumpter-cloth. 1983    Burlington Mag. 125 294/2  				Sumpter cloths, used to cover bales of goods moved by pack-horse.., were often richly embroidered or made of tapestry. < as lemmas  | 
	
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