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单词 tamein
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tameinn.

/taˈmʌɪn/
Forms: Also 1800s tamehn, te-mine; tamain.
Etymology: Burmese.
Burma.
A draped garment resembling a sari, worn usually by women.
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tamein1839
1839 H. Malcom Trav. I. ii. iii. 214 Women universally wear a te-mine, or petticoat.
1858 C. T. Winter Six Months Brit. Burmah vii. 56 The te-miné is a very scant garment.
1858 C. T. Winter Six Months Brit. Burmah viii. 73 The woman's tamehn is a simple piece of cotton or silk.
1863 Leisure Hour Oct. 667/1 With their shaven heads..and their scant tameins (petticoats).
1888 Bow-Bells Weekly 11 May 293/2 Burmese women..wear of evenings or when visiting religious places, gay-coloured silk ‘tameins’.
1908 Lady R. Churchill Reminisc. xiii. 272 As we drove by I saw half a dozen priests in their yellow ‘tamains’, or robes.
1926 Chambers's Jrnl. Feb. 66/1 An old tamein of blue cotton check..covered her from armpit to calf.
1950 J. H. Williams Elephant Bill x. 164 She wore her blue tamain girdled above her breasts, leaving her beautiful pale shoulders bare.
1984 J. Colenbrander Portrait of Fryn ix. 133 Mademoiselle Denigré, the blind French silk~weaver of the Royal tameins.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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