单词 | tawdry lace |
释义 | † tawdry lacen. Obsolete. In the earliest quotation St. Audrey's lace, i.e. lace of St. Audrey, Etheldrida, or Æþelðryþ (daughter of Anna king of East Anglia, and patron saint of Ely): A silk ‘lace’ or necktie, much worn by women in the 16th and early 17th cent.; sometimes taken as a type of female adornments. [As to the origin of the name, it is told, originally by Bæda ( Eccl. Hist. iv. ix.), and after him by Ælfric in the Life of St. Æþelðryth, Virgin ( Ælfric's Lives of Saints, ed. Skeat, 1885, xx. ll. 49–60), that St. Audrey died of a tumour in her throat, which she considered to be a just retribution, because in her youth she had for vain show adorned her neck with manifold splendid necklaces, ‘forðan þe ic on iugoðe frætwede mine swuran mid mænigfealdum swurbeagum’. In the 16th century, N. Harpsfield, Archdeacon of Canterbury under Philip and Mary (died 1588), after relating the story in his (Latin) Historia Anglicana Ecclesiastica (Douay 1622), adds ‘Our women of England are wont to wear about the neck a certain necklace [torquem quendam ], formed of thin and fine silk, perchance in memory of what we have told’. See also, more particularly, quot. 1674 below. Skinner in his Etymologicon (licensed 1668), explains Tawdry lace as ‘Ties, fringes, or bands, bought at the fair held at the fane of St. Etheldreda, as rightly points out Doctor Th. Henshaw’. There is no discrepancy between the two statements. ‘St. Audrey's laces’ would naturally be largely offered for sale at her fair, and though this did not give the article its name, it doubtless made it more widely known, and led to the production of cheap and showy forms for the ‘country wenches’ (see Nares s.v.), which at length gave to tawdry its later connotation.] ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > neck-wear > [noun] > neck-tie or cravat > neck-tie > types of > other tawdry lace1548 tawdryne1586 tawdry1612 solitaire1731 sentiment1838 four-in-hand1892 Teck1895 Windsor1895 Windsor tie1895 shoestring tiea1902 Jemima1920 bolo tie1954 picture tie1957 bolo1962 kipper tie1966 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 63/2 Seynt Audries lace, cordon.] 1548 W. Patten Exped. Scotl. Pref. sig. c ivv Pardon Beades, Tanthonie belles, Tauthrie laces, Rosaries, Collets. 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Apr. 135 Binde your fillets faste, And gird in your waste, For more finesse, with a tawdrie lace. 1593 Jack Straw iii. D iv Queen... I will speake for thee. T. M. Will you in faith, and I will giue you a tawdrie lace. ?1610 J. Fletcher Faithfull Shepheardesse iv. sig. G1v The prim-Rose Chaplet? taudry-lace and Ring, Thou gauest her for her singing. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iv. 248 Come you promis'd me a tawdry-lace, and a paire of sweet Gloues. View more context for this quotation 1674 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 4) Taudrey Lace, so called from St. Audrey (Ethelreda) who thought her self punished for wearing rich Necklaces of Jewels; and therefore women after that wore Necklaces of fine silk, called Taudrey Laces. c1750 W. Shenstone Elegies xi. 18 To deck my native fleece with tawdry lace! This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1548 |
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