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单词 tablier
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tabliern.

Brit. /ˈtablɪeɪ/, U.S. /ˌtɑbliˈeɪ/
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French tablier.
Etymology: Originally < Middle French tablier chessboard (see tabler n.1). In later use reborrowed < French tablier apron (1530 in Middle French), hypertrophied labia minora (1759 or earlier; frequently in tablier des Hottentotes (see Hottentot apron n. at Hottentot n. and adj. Compounds); the labia minora are apparently so called on account of the resemblance of their form to an apron), specific sense developments of tablier tablecloth (see tabler n.1).
1. A chessboard. Cf. tabler n.1 Obsolete. rare.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > chess > [noun] > chessboard
exchequera1300
chess1303
chequerc1330
quek1376
tablerc1380
chessboard1474
tablier1474
chequerboard1597
chess-table1862
1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iv. i. 158 For to represente the mesure of thys cyte, In whiche thys playe or game was founden, The philosopher that fonde hit first ordeyned a tablier conteynyng .lxiiii. poynts square.
2.
a. Cultural Anthropology. The large hypertrophied labia minora thought characteristic of the women of certain southern African peoples, esp. the Khoesan. Cf. Hottentot apron n. at Hottentot n. and adj. Compounds.
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the world > life > the body > sex organs > female sex organs > [noun] > vulva > labia
lip1598
nymphs1615
labium1634
nympha1646
tablier1789
Hottentot apron1833
1789 W. Short Let. 25 Dec. in T. Jefferson Papers (1961) XVI. 47 [In the] Travels of M. de Veillant in Africa from 1780 to 1785..[h]e asserts the fact of the tablier of the female sex denied by Sparman.
1822 W. Lawrence tr. G. Cuvier in Lect. Physiol. Zool. & Nat. Hist. Man 361 She [i.e. Sarah Baartman] kept her ‘tablier’ carefully concealed, either between her thighs, or still more deeply; and it was not known, til after her death, that she possessed it.
1837 Brit. & Foreign Rev. 4 344 The Hottentots are a very peculiar race, short, squab, ill-favoured... The women have a certain tablier, and after the birth of the first child, invariably an enormous accumulation of fat from hip to hip.
1893 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 294 The tablier is usual among their women and believed to be a mark of race.
1957 Man 57 35 Male awareness of and pride in the tablier..suggests that sexual selection may have played a prominent part in the evolution of the tablier.
1999 T. Sharpley-Whiting Black Venus v. 65 In the early nineteenth century the apron, or the tablier, was already fetishized in the French scientific and cultural imagination.
b. Originally: a part of a dress resembling an apron; a skirt front having the form of an apron. Now: an apron.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > dress, robe, or gown > parts of > other
square1579
underbody1621
stay1688
sack-back1784
underdress1806
tablier1820
overdress1848
pouf1869
Watteau pleat1873
Watteau school1891
Watteau back1899
collar-band1907
1820 Morning Chron. 1 Aug. 3/3 Fancy Ball Dress... Tablier of white gauze, crape, or net, superbly trimmed with full blown roses, alternate white and red.
1835 Court Mag. 6 p. xvii/2 The skirts of these latter are closed before, and trimmed with folds in the form of a tablier.
1862 Englishwoman's Domest. Mag. 4 236/1 The dress..ornamented in front with a tablier of white satin.
1903 Daily Chron. 30 May 8/4 At the edge of the tablier skirt that falls loosely over the deep flounce.
1967 Times 10 July 7/4 A light-coloured dress can also be preserved with a French style tablier.
2007 Internat. Herald Tribune (Nexis) 6 Oct. 24 The clothing consisted of..cropped, dark denim pants paired with an oversized quilted pink jacket, pea coat or even a sweet take on a school tablier, an apron.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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