单词 | tiretaine |
释义 | tiretainen. A cloth woven of wool mixed with linen or cotton, ‘worne ordinarily by the French peasants’ (Cotgrave); linsey-woolsey. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from mixed fibres > [noun] > wool and linen or cotton linsey-woolsey1483 demi-ostade1537 wincey1808 tiretaine1863 linsey?1881 1863 G. A. Sala Last Crusader 213 ‘Many and many a time’, writes the good Sire de Joinville,..‘have I seen the good king..vestured in a coat of camlet, a surcoat of tiretaine without sleeves, a mantle above the black sandalette’. 1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices II. xxii. 579 We find kersey, tirretin [c1284–5: cf. I. 536/3], murrey, burell, rosete, keynet, reynes, and taursmaurs.] 1901 tr. V. Hugo Hunchback of Notre Dame xxiii The petticoat of tiretaine with red and blue stripes. 1910 Sat. Westm. Gaz. 15 Jan. 6/2 Plump dames in tiretaines. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1863 |
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