单词 | brown holland |
释义 | > as lemmasbrown Holland a. A linen fabric, originally called, from the province of Holland in the Netherlands, Holland cloth. When unbleached called brown Holland. 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 flax, hemp, or jute > [noun] > linen > types of > from specific place of origin Holland1427 minsters1481 tregarc1610 roan1617 Strasbourg linen1635 quentin1688 garlits1696 Ghenting1699 platilla1699 Russia linen1728 Russia crash1831 Ruskin linen1890 1427 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 77 Unum super~pellicium novum de holand-cloth. c1450 Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 241 A shert of feyn Holond. c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. lxxviijv/2 Item a pece holland or ony other lynnen cloth. 1542 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 220 Thre elnes of Holand cloth. 1551–2 Househ. Acc. P'cess Eliz. in Camden Misc. II. 31 For vj. ellnes of hollande for towelles. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. iii. 70 Holland of viii s. an ell. View more context for this quotation 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 169 Women..cover their heads with a coyfe of fine holland linen cloth. 1661 in J. Russell Haigs of Bemersyde (1881) 470 To bay holen..to make bands of. 1667 J. Dryden Annus Mirabilis 1666 ccvi. 52 Some..For folded Turbans finest Holland bear. 1675 N. Grew Compar. Anat. Trunks ii. vii. 79 All our fine Hollands are made of Flax. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Holland or Holland-Cloth, a kind of Linnen Cloth made in that Country. 1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) iii. 16 Every chandelier or lustre, muffled in holland. 1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour v. xxiv. 130 He had the house put away in brown Holland, the carpets rolled up, the pictures covered, the statues shrouded in muslin. 1884 Times (Weekly ed.) 12 Sept. 7/1 Frocks of neat brown holland embroidered with scarlet. < as lemmas |
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