| 单词 | buskin-maker |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbuskin-maker C1. General attributive and objective. Chiefly in sense 1a, as buskin-hose, buskin-maker, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > [noun] > boot-making > making boots of specific type > one who buskin-maker?1560 ?1560 in Documents Revels at Court King Edward VI & Queen Mary (1914) 116 Buskinmaker ij doz. paire made of olde. 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Borzoguineria A buskin makers shop, Cothurnaria sutrina. 1637 T. Brian Pisse-prophet iv. 28 This messenger..is a very plain fellow in his holy-day Jacket and his busking Hose. 1799 tr. B. Faujas-de-St.-Fond Trav. in Eng., Scotl., & Hebrides II. ii. 13 Plaid jacket, kilt, feathered bonnet, buskin-hose, durk. 1886 J. M. Ludlow Captain of Janizaries xxxiv. 245 You'll skin well, my gentle lambkin; and as you are half tanned already, we will sell your hide to the buskin maker. 1987 Yearbk. Eng. Stud. 17 262 Biographical notes on each name from Bulstrode Whitelocke to the buskin-maker. < as lemmas |
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