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单词 watered silk
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watered silk
a. Of fabric: having a glossy finish with a rippled pattern resembling waves. Esp. in watered silk. Cf. water v. 12.
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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.
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