单词 | wincey |
释义 | winceyn. A very durable cloth having a linen warp and a woollen weft. (occasionally A garment made of this.) Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from mixed fibres > [noun] > wool and linen or cotton linsey-woolsey1483 demi-ostade1537 wincey1808 tiretaine1863 linsey?1881 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Winsey, adj. Of or belonging to wool... Cotton-winsey denotes what is made of cotton and wool; Linen-winsey, of linen and wool, linsey-woolsey. 1810 J. Duff Poems (1816) 2 Her winsies war made by sweet Modesty's rule. 1858 E. B. Ramsay Reminisc. Sc. Life (1859) v. 161 A striped wincey apron. 1862 Cornhill Mag. Nov. 695 Some wincey and a number of pieces of coburg. 1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 4032 Dress wincies. 1893 R. C. Praed Outlaw & Lawmaker xi All varieties, from the honest brown and grey wincey to the Park turn-out. 1907 Mrs. C. Kernahan Fraud iv. 29 She..wore a brown winsey dress. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1808 |
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