单词 | tablier |
释义 | tabliern.ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1474 |
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