单词 | waist-cloth |
释义 | waist-clothn.ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > decorative cloths mast-cloth1600 waist-cloth1615 1615 R. Cocks Diary (1883) I. 31 The China Capt. being ready to goe for Goto, I lent hym our boate and wastclothes, and delivered hym back 120 Rs. of 8. 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. xiii. 59 Out goes his flag and pendants, also his waste clothes and top armings, which is a long red cloth..that goeth round about the ship on the out sides of all her vpper workes fore and aft,..as well for the..grace of the ship, as to couer the men for being seene. 1660 S. Pepys Diary 16 May (1970) I. 142 We..had our guns ready to fire and our Scarlett wastecloaths out and silk pendants. 1840 H. Smith Oliver Cromwell I. 284 Hundreds of lighters, pinnaces, and longboats, dressed up with waist~cloths and with streamers. 2. Nautical. A hammock-cloth stowed in the waist of a vessel. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > devices to protect ship from weather > covering of canvas or tarpaulin > covering for hammocks netting-sail1627 hammock-cloth1804 top-cloth1815 waist-cloth1815 1815 W. Burney Falconer's New Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) Waist-cloths, coverings of canvas or tarpauling for the hammocks, which are stowed on the gang-ways, between the quarter-deck and fore-castle. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Waist-cloths, the painted canvas coverings of the hammocks which are stowed in the waist-nettings. 3. A loin-cloth that the native inhabitants of hot climates wear round the waist, either hanging down in front or passed between the thighs. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > clothing for lower body > clothing for loins or genital area > loin cloth dhoti1622 lungi1634 veil1634 pagne1698 breech-clout1757 lap1769 maro1769 waist-cloth1810 langoti1816 breech-cloth1841 malo1850 loin-cloth1859 G string1878 loin-rag1929 lap-lap1930 1810 T. Williamson E. India Vade-mecum I. 247 The dress of the doby is generally very plain, consisting of a turban, a dotee, (or waist-cloth,) and a chudder, (or sheet). 1835 Court Mag. 6 65/2 Sometimes black glazed jackets formed part of their attire; but generally it consisted of nothing more than a blue checquered dotee, or waistcloth. 1882 H. de Windt On Equator 81 The deceased is then brought up attired in his waistcloth and ornaments. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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