| 单词 | to play at draw gloves |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto play at draw gloves A type of parlour game involving the use of one's gloves, esp. in to play at draw gloves. Also occasionally with second element in singular. Cf. drawing of gloves n.No description of this game survives. N.E.D. (1897) suggested it ‘consisted apparently in a race at drawing off gloves at the utterance of certain words’, but see also the definition given in quot. 1846, which may represent a different game. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > parlour and party games > [noun] > other party or parlour games drawing of glovesc1540 drawing gloves1599 substantives and adjectives1601 draw gloves1648 grinning-match1711 Move All1782 consequences1811 stagecoach1831 letters1845 Russian scandal1861 buzz1864 snap1865 slappy1868 apple-ducking1886 up Jenkins1889 piladex1895 telephone1910 hot potato1915 sardines1924 murder in the dark1930 pass the parcel1953 seven minutes in (also of) heaven1953 Chinese whispers1964 1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. H8 At Draw-Gloves we'l play, And prethee, let's lay A wager, and let it be this; Who first to the Summe Of twenty shall come, Shall have for his winning a kisse. 1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. R6v If not, at Draw-gloves we will play. 1766 H. Brooke Fool of Quality I. iii. 72 Here our hero was beaten hollow, as he was afterward at draw-glove and shuffle the slipper. 1771 S. Briscoe Miss Melmoth xvii. 92 Suppose we play at draw-gloves. 1846 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I. 316/2 Draw-gloves, a game played by holding up the fingers representing words by their different positions, as we say talking with the fingers. It corresponds to the micare digitis. < as lemmas |
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