单词 | watered silk |
释义 | > as lemmaswatered silk a. Of fabric: having a glossy finish with a rippled pattern resembling waves. Esp. in watered silk. Cf. water v. 12. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [adjective] > patterned > other watered1568 water1586 Paisley1790 herringbone1860 1568 Edinb. Test. I. f. 214v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Wattirit Blak watterit chamelot. ?1595 Q. Eliz. & Levant Co. (1904) 87 Waltered and unwaltered Chamblletts. 1646 T. Rokeby in Brief Mem. (1861) 9 For watered tabba when my lady was at Yorke 6 l. 9 s. 9 d. 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 8 Of watered Silks, or Stuffs. 1714 tr. French Bk. of Rates 365 Camlets watered and not watered. 1760 H. Walpole Let. 7 June in Corr. (1973) XXXV. 300 The Duke of York, who was dressed in a pale blue watered tabby. 1823 J. Rutter Delineations of Fonthill 43 The hangings of crimson cloth and watered moreen are handsome. 1840 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 670/2 Over his waistcoat he wore..a broad black watered riband, to which was attached his eyeglass. 1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss I. ii. i. 256 That watered-silk she had on cost a pretty penny. c1947 C. Beaton Diary in Self Portrait with Friends (1979) xvi. 189 Diana sewing a piece of black and white watered taffeta; Vivien [Leigh] and I listened to Duff. 2012 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 30 Nov. (Movies section) b9 Anna wears an asymmetrical grey watered silk dress. < as lemmas |
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