| 释义 |
† Hungerlin Obs.
[? A corruption of Hungerland.]
‘A sort of short furred robe, so named from having been derived from Hungary’ (Nares).
c1645Howell Lett. I. i. i, It was a quaint difference the Ancients did put 'twixt a Letter and an Oration, that the one should be attir'd like a Woman, the other like a Man..A Letter or Epistle should be short-coated and closely couchd: a Hungerlin becomes a Letter more hansomely then a gown. 1658Burbury Hist. Chr. Alessandra 212 The Cardinal followed her Majesty, who had on a man's Hungerlin of plain black Velvet with a band, and an upper safegard for women of a dark grey colour, without which she would have lookt like a man. |