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单词 to stand in print
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to stand in print
c. With reference to personal appearance. to set in print: to arrange the pleats of (a ruff, etc.) in a neat or precise fashion; to dress (the hair, beard, etc.) neatly. Similarly to stand in print. Cf. print adj.1 1b, printed adj. 1b. Obsolete.Apparently earliest with reference to a style of ruff worn by Puritans, in which the pleats were small and arranged in formal sets (set n.1 27).
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1598 E. Guilpin Skialetheia v. sig. D6v Neat as a Merchants ruffe, that's set in print.
1600 N. Breton Pasquils Fooles-cap (rev. ed.) sig. C2 Hee that can combe his head and curle his bearde, And set his Ruffes, and weare his Cloake in print.
1602 T. Dekker Blurt Master-Constable sig. E4v Your ruffe must stand in print, and for that purpose, gette poking sticks.
1605 G. Chapman Al Fooles v. i. H iv b Tis such a picked fellow, not a haire About his whole Bulke, but it stands in print.
1617 H. Fitzgeffrey Satyres sig. B5v To set in print the Haire: Character the Face: Or dye in graine the Ruffe for Visage grace.
1629 J. Gaule Distractions 91 His [sc. a proper squire's] Beuer cocks, Feather waggs, Locks houer, and Beard stands in print.
1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes i. ii. 132 in Wks. II Pen. iu.: Put on my Girdle. Rascal, sits my Ruffe well? Lin. In print.
a1642 J. Suckling Poems 18 in Fragmenta Aurea (1646) It is so rare..to see Ought that belongs to young Nobility In print (but their own clothes) that we must praise.
1673 A. Behn Dutch Lover iii. ii. 43 A Coller in stead of a Cravat twelve inches high; with a blew, stiff, starcht, lawn Band, set in print like your Whiskers.
1678 R. L'Estrange tr. Epistles i. 5 in Seneca's Morals Abstracted (1679) When you see a Man Dress, and set his Cloths in Print, you shall be sure to find his Words so too.
1746 A. Arbuthnot Life Simon, Lord Lovat 171 His Wig very fair, and well powder'd; his curious Band set in Print, which the nicest Nun could not have found the least Fault with.
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