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draw-glove
†1. (Also draw-gloves.) An old parlour game, also called drawing (of) gloves, which consisted apparently in a race at drawing off gloves at the utterance of certain words. Obs.
c1400Destr. Troy 2938 Drawing of glovis, With comonyng in company..Gers maidnes be mart, mariage fordone. 1598Drayton Heroic. Ep. 370 (N.) In pretty riddles to bewray our loves, In questions, purpose, or in drawing gloves. 1648Herrick Hesper. (1869) 104 (Draw Gloves) At draw-gloves we'l play, And prethee, let's lay A wager, and let it be this; Who first to the summe Of twenty shall come Shall have for his winning a kisse. Ibid. 230. 1767 H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1859) I. 21 Here our hero was beaten hollow, as he was afterward at drawglove and shuffle the slipper.
2. An archer's drawing-glove. |