† yellow-plushn.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: yellow adj., plush n.¹

Etymology: < yellow adj. + plush n.¹Plush of a yellow colour was formerly much used in the breeches of footmen, as seen in the following examples:?1797 ‘Petronius Arbiter’ Mem. Countess Derby 6 He remembers also to have seen the part of Captain Plume, in the Recruiting Officer, enacted in a red stuff coat, and laced waistcoat and yellow plush breeches borrowed from the Footman.1841 W. M. Thackeray Hist. Samuel Titmarsh ii, in Fraser's Mag. Sept. 332/2 A great powdered fellow in yellowplush breeches.1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 June 2/1 The fine fellow who wears yellow plush and a powdered wig, and was hired because he is five feet eleven or six feet, and has a pair of splendid calves.

Obsolete.

1. A footman, esp. one who wears breeches made of yellow plush. Also in extended use: an underling, a lackey.Sometimes with specific allusion to the fictional character invented by Thackeray: see quot. 1837.

ΘΠ

society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > [noun] > liveried > footman or flunkey

footman1662

flunkey1786

yellow-plush1841

Jeames1846

Thomas1846

John Thomas1860

little man1885

1837 W. M. Thackeray (title) The Yellowplush Correspondence.]

1841 Satirist 25 July 236/2 What would become of the lacqueys?..What should we do with the yellow plushes?

1842 W. M. Thackeray in Punch 24 Sept. 133/1 He fetched the dishes, drew the corks and performed all the duties of His Majesty's yellowplush.

1860 Empire (Sydney) 6 July 3/1 This was the plan, duly arranged by the Viscount with his Yellow Plush in the chair called the Speaker.

1861 ‘C. Bede’ Glencreggan I. xi. 245 Do you ever carry your Gaelic into Mayfair, and excite the astonishment of the Belgravian yellow-plushes at your Highland ‘di'lect’.

1915 Western Jrnl. Educ. Mar. 1/2 No other people are such outrageous flunkies, pecksniffs and yellow-plushes as are the Americans.

2. In plural. Breeches made of yellow plush, as worn by footmen. Cf. plush n.¹ 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > with pile or nap > plush > specific

yellow-plushes1842

Utrecht velvet1848

samite1853

plushette1877

1842 C. Knight London III. 304 Dodsley, in the periwig and full coat of burgess..beneath which peep out a pair of irreproachable ‘yellow plushes’, bows deferentially to Burke.

1846 J. Trenhaile Poems for People 186 The hero and heroine cantered away, With a tiger and valet in yellow plushes.

Compounds

attributive in the sense ‘of or relating to footmen’, as yellow-plush tribe, etc.

1849 Preston Chron. & Lancs. Advertiser 15 Sept. 3/4 An anxious father, of the yellow-plush school, once wrote the following letter to a boarding-school mistress.

1884 Western Mail 12 Jan. 2/9 It is interesting..to find a member of the ‘yellow plush profession’ coming forward in the interest of sanitary reform.

1894 F. C. Baylor Claudia Hyde i. 12 That air of command which flunkeys interpret as a right to ‘lord’ it over the whole yellow-plush tribe.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2018).

单词	yellow-plush
释义	† yellow-plushn. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: yellow adj., plush n.¹ Etymology: < yellow adj. + plush n.¹Plush of a yellow colour was formerly much used in the breeches of footmen, as seen in the following examples:?1797 ‘Petronius Arbiter’ Mem. Countess Derby 6 He remembers also to have seen the part of Captain Plume, in the Recruiting Officer, enacted in a red stuff coat, and laced waistcoat and yellow plush breeches borrowed from the Footman.1841 W. M. Thackeray Hist. Samuel Titmarsh ii, in Fraser's Mag. Sept. 332/2 A great powdered fellow in yellowplush breeches.1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 June 2/1 The fine fellow who wears yellow plush and a powdered wig, and was hired because he is five feet eleven or six feet, and has a pair of splendid calves. Obsolete. 1. A footman, esp. one who wears breeches made of yellow plush. Also in extended use: an underling, a lackey.Sometimes with specific allusion to the fictional character invented by Thackeray: see quot. 1837. ΘΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > [noun] > liveried > footman or flunkey footman1662 flunkey1786 yellow-plush1841 Jeames1846 Thomas1846 John Thomas1860 little man1885 1837 W. M. Thackeray (title) The Yellowplush Correspondence.] 1841 Satirist 25 July 236/2 What would become of the lacqueys?..What should we do with the yellow plushes? 1842 W. M. Thackeray in Punch 24 Sept. 133/1 He fetched the dishes, drew the corks and performed all the duties of His Majesty's yellowplush. 1860 Empire (Sydney) 6 July 3/1 This was the plan, duly arranged by the Viscount with his Yellow Plush in the chair called the Speaker. 1861 ‘C. Bede’ Glencreggan I. xi. 245 Do you ever carry your Gaelic into Mayfair, and excite the astonishment of the Belgravian yellow-plushes at your Highland ‘di'lect’. 1915 Western Jrnl. Educ. Mar. 1/2 No other people are such outrageous flunkies, pecksniffs and yellow-plushes as are the Americans. 2. In plural. Breeches made of yellow plush, as worn by footmen. Cf. plush n.¹ 2. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > with pile or nap > plush > specific yellow-plushes1842 Utrecht velvet1848 samite1853 plushette1877 1842 C. Knight London III. 304 Dodsley, in the periwig and full coat of burgess..beneath which peep out a pair of irreproachable ‘yellow plushes’, bows deferentially to Burke. 1846 J. Trenhaile Poems for People 186 The hero and heroine cantered away, With a tiger and valet in yellow plushes. Compounds attributive in the sense ‘of or relating to footmen’, as yellow-plush tribe, etc. Π 1849 Preston Chron. & Lancs. Advertiser 15 Sept. 3/4 An anxious father, of the yellow-plush school, once wrote the following letter to a boarding-school mistress. 1884 Western Mail 12 Jan. 2/9 It is interesting..to find a member of the ‘yellow plush profession’ coming forward in the interest of sanitary reform. 1894 F. C. Baylor Claudia Hyde i. 12 That air of command which flunkeys interpret as a right to ‘lord’ it over the whole yellow-plush tribe. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < n.1841
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