单词 | canton crape |
释义 | > as lemmasCanton crape Used attributively to denote various manufactured articles, as Canton china, Canton crape, Canton enamel, Canton flannel, Canton matting. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > manufacture or production > [adjective] > manufactured or produced > manufactured in specific place homemade1565 town-made1700 made1747 Canton1860 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > cotton > [noun] > with nap > cotton plush swan's-down1801 cotton flannel1845 Canton flannel1860 1860 Texas Almanac 244 Shirts, Carpets, Canton-Matting, shoes. 1865 M. Eyre Lady's Walks South of France xvii. 195 A lady's worked Canton crape shawl. 1881 C. C. Harrison Woman's Handiwork Mod. Homes i. 47 Canton flannel,..a soft, downy fabric, the same on both sides. 1881 C. C. Harrison Woman's Handiwork Mod. Homes iii. 231 Blue Canton china of the willow pattern. 1889 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 381 A good quality of canton flannel. 1910 S. W. Bushell Chinese Art (ed. 2) II. 82 Painted enamels on copper..often known as ‘Canton enamels’. 1968 J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 222 Canton crêpe. Originally made of silk from Canton, this crêpe is widely used for dresses; it has a very pebbly surface and drapes and hangs beautifully. Canton crape Sometimes specifically called English crape (crêpe anglais). For similar fabrics of other colours or material the French form crêpe n. (which has retained the wider meaning of the word) is now used by preference, though the English form also occurs with qualifications, as in Canton crape or China crape = crêpe de chine at crêpe n. 1, †crape-lesse = crêpe lisse at crêpe n. 1 a kind of crape without any wrinkling or ‘figure’; see also crape-cloth n. at Compounds 3 below. The ‘crape’ for which Norwich was formerly famous, was a plain cloth of silk warp and worsted weft, which afterwards degenerated into bombazine: see the latter word (quots. 1789 –1831 at sense 2).extracted from crapen.< as lemmas |
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