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单词 brunswick
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Brunswickn.

Brit. /ˈbrʌnzwɪk/, U.S. /ˈbrənzˌwɪk/
Forms: late Middle English Browneswyke, 1600s Brunsweik (Scottish), 1600s Brunswicke, 1600s– Brunswick.
Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Brunswick.
Etymology: < the name of Brunswick (Middle Low German Brūnswīk, German regional (Low German) Brūnswīk, Brunswyk; German Braunschweig), a city in northern Germany (formerly the capital of the duchy of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel).Earlier currency of the English word is suggested by the following earlier example of the fabric name in a Latin context:a1427 in C. M. Woolgar Househ. Accts. Medieval Eng. (1992) II. 660 Pro lxiiii ulnis de canvace vocato Brouneswyk' pro duplicacione de xiiii houcez.
I. Simple uses.
1. A kind of textile fabric originally imported from Brunswick, Germany; an article made from this fabric. Obsolete.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > other textile fabrics > [noun]
renciana1300
maidenhair1359
caryc1394
spinal1399
whitefolding1423
care1429
radevorec1430
queen's clothc1450
basselan1453
Brunswick1480
ragmas1480
haberjetc1503
redvorea1525
stockbridge1526
demigraine1540
fledge1542
pinned white1552
satin-reverses1554
beverneck1567
scamato1569
messellawny1604
brogetie1610
novato1614
fugeratta1638
barrateen1689
tamarine1691
masquerade1696
calandring1697
succatoon1703
russerine1710
stade1714
Chuckla1721
long ell1725
slay1745
vilderoy1769
succota1780
minorque1794
zebra1829
grising1866
Turkoman1881
cameline1886
lyocell1990
1480 Wardrobe Accts. Edward IV in N. H. Nicolas Privy Purse Expenses Elizabeth of York (1830) 130 Brussell clothe DCC vij elles iij quarters; Browneswyke iiijxx ix elles.
1669 Act for Setling of Excize 86 Carpets called..Brunswicks and Gentish Carpets, stript and unstript.
1735 S.-Carolina Gaz. 24 Jan. 3/1 Brunswick, gulix, alcamar, gentish and tendam holland, fine and midling cambricks, brown hollands [etc.].
1770 J. Atkinson Tariff 15 Linen... Hollands, 15 ps. Hempen, 80 ps. Silesia, Brunswick, and Westphalia, 12 ps. Pack linen, 40 ps.
1813 Repertory of Arts 2nd Ser. 22 384 Richard Coupland and Frederick Coupland, of Leeds, in the county of York, Manufacturers; for their manufacture of shawls, cords, Brunswicks, ribbed and plain kerseymeres and milled cloths, from a mixture of animal and vegetable wool.
2. A woman's sack-back gown or jacket, popular in the later 18th cent., typically having a hood, buttoned front, and close-fitting sleeves with ruffles at the elbows, and usually worn over a matching petticoat. Now historical.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > dress, robe, or gown > types of > other
gite13..
long dress1731
Jesuit1767
Brunswick1769
overdress1812
fancy dress1826
agbada1852
stone-bluea1855
low-neck1858
Dolly Varden1872
sundress1875
frump1886
harem dress1911
kimono gowna1922
gina-gina1923
dirndl1937
qipao1955
cheongsam1957
sack dress1957
tent dress1957
gomesi1965
minidress1965
poncho dress1968
longuette1970
anarkali1988
suit dress2017
1769 Public Advertiser 20 Mar. (advt.) Ladies Riding-Habits made, Brunswicks [etc.].
1775 Misc. in Ann. Reg. 193/2 Hats, bonnets, sacks, jesuits, brunswicks, poloneses, muffs, &c.
1794 Oracle & Public Advertiser 8 Nov. Young Ladies Dress, Undress, and Coloured Frocks, Dimity Cloaks, Petticoats, Pockets, Sleeping Gowns, Brunswicks, &c. particularly cheap.
1984 A. Ribeiro Dress in 18th Cent. Europe 105/2 A three-quarter length Brunswick ordered in 1768..was used as a garment for out-of-doors, but later in 1772, a Brunswick of blue and white checked cotton was probably..seen as an informal dress.
2016 M. D. Doering in J. Blanco Clothing & Fashion 314/2 Brunswicks..generally had form-fitting wrist-length sleeves.
II. Compounds.
3. attributive (in sense 2), as Brunswick dress, Brunswick gown, Brunswick jacket, etc. Now historical.
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1769 Gen. Lover vi. 22 A Brunswick habit, which was..blue, I open'd at the hands and bosom to give her air.
1774 Public Advertiser 3 May Mrs. Pelham, whole Length, in a flowered Muslin Brunswick Dress, feeding her Poultry.
1797 True Briton 19 May Book Muslin Petticoats, 41/2 yards wide, 1 guinea; Brunswick Jacket and Petticoat; Dimity Petticoats 10s.
1814 Family Politics iv. i, in J. Galt New Brit. Theatre II. 228 My Lady will be so pleased with the discovery I have made, that she will probably reward me with the old Brunswick dress.
1984 A. Ribeiro Dress in 18th Cent. Europe 105/1 (caption) The mother's hooded, sack-back Brunswick gown, has the characteristic long sleeves broken at the elbow.
2015 S. F. Craft Cassia xvii. 193 Lilyan..concentrated mightily on unfolding her favorite Brunswick jacket. The three-quarter length garment..was her favorite traveling gown.
4. Brunswick green n. any of various deep green pigments, typically containing copper, the earliest of which was perhaps a copper chloride hydroxide; (also) any of a range of shades of green produced by such pigments (or in imitation of them using mixtures such as chrome green). [After German Braunschweigisches Grün (1767), so called because the pigment was originally manufactured by the Gravenhorst Brothers' company in Brunswick, where it was invented in 1764. Compare German Braunschweiger Grün (1771 or earlier), now the more usual term.]
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > [noun] > shade or tint of green > other greens
beech-greenc1450
frost on green1559
sap1572
apple green1648
sap-green1686
myrtle green1717
Brunswick green1790
pistachio1791
pistachio green1793
mountain green1794
lettuce green1834
copper-green1843
canard1872
myrtle1872
leaf-green1880
cress-green1883
cresson1883
watercress green1883
lizard-green1897
jade1921
apple1923
laurel1923
mango1930
laurel-green1938
lettuce1963
mint1967
the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > green colouring matter > [noun] > pigment or dye > other pigments
vert1481
verditer1505
green bice1548
sap1572
sap-green1578
terre-verte1658
verditer1665
ultramarine blue (or colour)1686
emerald1712
Prussian green1738
Saxon green1753
verditel1778
Brunswick green1790
mountain green1822
Vienna green1825
bladder-green1830
Verona green1835
mitis green1839
Paris green1847
Hooker's green1860
Guignet's green1862
emerald green1879
silk green1880
viridian1882
Cassel green1885
Milori green1885
Victoria green1890
Montpellier green1930
cadmium green1934
guaco1936
Monastral1936
1790 Mem. Lit. & Philos. Soc. Manch. 3 531 The modern Brunswick green is still kept secret.
1869 Bradshaw's Railway Man. 21 460 (advt.) Brunswick Green dark middle, and pale.
2012 Heritage Railway 16 Feb. 12/2 (caption) The engine is painted in Brunswick green livery but with the cylinders unlined in accordance with standard Doncaster practice.
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a. Brunswick black n. now rare (chiefly historical in later use) a black varnish typically made of turpentine and asphalt or lampblack; cf. Berlin black n. at Berlin n. Compounds.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > painting or coating materials > [noun] > varnish > types of
lac1598
lacquer1697
amber varnish1731
spirit varnish1738
fern-oil1753
Venetian varnish1755
Brunswick black1791
thitsi1832
Japan lacquer1835
nashiji1880
1791 Diary; or, Woodfall's Reg. 6 Jan. (advt.) Skidmore's Valuable Shining Liquid Brunswick Black, for blacking Bath and other Stoves, Hearths, insides of Chimnies, &c.
1818 Literary Jrnl. June 167/2 Their back surfaces must be covered in a thin coating of Brunswick black.
1883 Science 9 Mar. 144/1 All trouble from halos may be avoided by coating the back of the plate with Brunswick black, which reflects no light to the film.
1907 A. E. Housman Let. 23 Apr. (2007) I. 205 The copy now in your possession I beg you to throw in the fire while there is a fire, before Mrs Rothenstein has had her spring cleaning and put Brunswick black on the grate.
2014 J. Ayres Art, Artisans & Apprentices xv. 324 The ferrous materials being treated with Brunswick black to minimise rusting which would stain the clay.
b. Brunswick-black v. now rare transitive to varnish with Brunswick black; (figurative) to blacken.
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1880 Eng. Mechanic & World of Sci. 8 Oct. 118/3 The stem connecting the arms with the copper wire was Brunswick-blacked or covered with pitch.
1908 Daily Chron. 26 Mar. 3/3 Wide enough of eye to see how he Brunswick-blacked the greys of life.
1935 C. Massie Hallelujah Chorus i. 3 The front door..was furnished with a heavy knocker in ornamental cast-iron; Brunswick-blacked and polished.
6. Brunswick Club n. now historical any of a number of Protestant organizations formed first in Ireland and later in England to oppose Daniel O'Connell's Catholic Association and the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829. [Probably so named on account of the fact that the heirs of Sophia of Hanover, Duchess Dowager of Hanover and Brunswick (1630–1714), were designated as the lawful British monarchs by the Act of Settlement of 1701. Although it has sometimes been suggested that the first club of this kind was founded by Charles, Duke of Brunswick 1823–31, there appears to be no evidence to support such a suggestion.]
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > Irish politics > [noun] > societies or associations
levellers1762
Hearts of Steel1771
Peep o' Day Boys1780
Rightboys1786
Brunswick Club1828
Orange Order1828
Young Ireland1843
Land league1881
U.I.L.1901
Noraid1974
U.U.U.C.1974
INLA1979
1828 Standard 27 Mar. The Cork Brunswick Club, which has been formed in the maintenance of the principles which placed the present illustrious family on the throne of these realms.
1829 T. Wyse Hist. Sketch Catholic Assoc. Ireland II. 13 The Catholic Association on one hand, and Brunswick Clubs on the other.
1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 813/1 The Brunswick clubs..were sprigs from the original Orange tree.
1942 E. Bowen Bowen's Court viii. 197 The ‘Brunswickers’..were the members of the Cork Brunswick Club—composed of prominent citizens and neighbouring gentlemen.
2000 S. Farrell Rituals & Riots iii. 88 Worried by the formation and rapid expansion of the Brunswick clubs, Daniel O'Connell and other leaders of the Catholic Association quickly moved to counter their ‘new’ opponents.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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