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▪ I. Wellington|ˈwɛlɪŋtən|
Also wellington.
[Named after Arthur, first duke of Wellington, 1769–1852.]
1. attrib.
a. Wellington boot = sense 2 a and b.
1818M. Birkbeck Notes Journ. Amer. (ed. 4) 88 Americans..in pantaloons and Wellington boots. 1839Dickens Nich. Nick. ii, Grey mixture pantaloons, and Wellington boots drawn over them. 1860All Year Round No. 64. 331 The Wellington boot at present worn by our dragoons under their trousers. 1884E. Yates Recoll. I. ii. 46 No gentleman could wear anything in the daytime but Wellington boots, high up the leg, over which the trousers fitted tightly, covering most of the foot, and secured underneath by a broad strap. 1971[see delphinium b]. 1980L. Lewis Private Life of Country House vi. 79 Snowboots..were virtually superseded by rubber wellington boots, which I first saw when I was about eleven [i.e. c. 1920].
b. Used to designate other articles of clothing introduced by the Duke, or named after him, as Wellington coat, Wellington hat, Wellington trousers.
1815[see half-dress s.v. half- II. n]. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. i, The preposterous length of their great-coats, and the equally fashionable latitude and longitude of their Wellington trousers. 1828Creevey Papers etc. (1904) II. 155 Yesterday morning he made his first appearance in a new ‘Wellington’ Coat (a kind of a half-and-half great Coat and undercoat, you know, meeting close and square below the knees). 1832Marryat N. Forster xxxii, The above look much more scientific than Wellington trousers. 1893G. Hill Hist. Eng. Dress II. 254 Wellington hat with the yeoman Crown.
c. Wellington chest (of drawers): a tall narrow chest of drawers used for keeping specimens. Occas. ellipt. as Wellington.
1953‘N. Blake’ Dreadful Hollow iv. 50 There was the wellington to which Stanford Blick had directed him. Nigel opened one of its drawers. 1960H. Hayward Antique Coll. 304/2 Wellington chest, a tall narrow chest containing about a dozen drawers which can be locked by a single hinged flap securing all the drawers. 1971Country Life 7 Oct. (Suppl.) 23 (Advt.), A small antique mahogany Wellington chest of drawers measuring only 19½ inches wide, 14 inches deep and 41 inches high. 1982‘J. Gash’ Firefly Gadroon v. 53 There's a space where I used to have my Wellington chest before I flogged it for bread.
2. a. A high boot covering the knee in front and cut away behind. Also a somewhat shorter boot worn under the trousers.
1817Moncrieff Giovanni in Lond. i. iv, And wear of wellingtons a pair, To shine from top to toe, sir! a1821Keats Modern Love 8 Miss's comb is made a pearl tiara, And common Wellingtons turn Romeo boots. 1854C. Knight Once upon a Time II. 266 The tops lasted till Wellingtons and trousers drove them out. 1869E. A. Parkes Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 416 The cavalry have Wellingtons and jackboots. 1906Stores' Price List, 2 Pairs Calf Wellingtons.
b. A waterproof boot usu. reaching the knee, worn in wet or muddy conditions. Usu. pl.
1907Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 326/1 Black glazed rubber boots. Ladies' Wellingtons. 1944D. Welch Jrnl. 25 Jan. (1973) 107 He wore an old thick jersey, and grey flannels tucked into Wellingtons. 1984Brian Mills Catal. Spring & Summer 337/4 Waterproof wellington in PVC.
3. A variety of cooking apple, large, roundish, and with yellowish white flesh. Also W. apple.
1821Trans. Hort. Soc. (1822) IV. 529 Mr. Richard Williams sent..specimens of an Apple called the Wellington, a very handsome and long keeping variety. 1839C. McIntosh Orchard 18 Dumelow's Seedling [Syn. Wellington Apple, Dumelow's Crab]. 1882Garden 18 Mar. 182/3 Cooks go generally for the Wellington as a cooking Apple.
▪ II. Wellington, n.2 Cookery.
Brit. |ˈwɛlɪŋt(ə)n|, U.S. |ˈwɛlɪŋt(ə)n|
[‹ the name Wellington, perhaps with reference to Arthur, first Duke of Wellington (see Wellington n.1 and quot. 1968).]
attrib. or (esp.) as postmodifier: designating a dish consisting of meat (originally and chiefly beef) wrapped in puff pastry, freq. having first been coated in pâté. Chiefly in beef Wellington n. at beef n. Additions
1939D. Ashley Where to dine in Thirty-nine 53 Tenderloin of Beef Wellington... Larded tenderloin of beef. Roast very rare. Allow to cool and roll into pie crust... Slice in portions and serve with sauce Madire. 1968T. Fitzgibbon Taste of Ireland 77/1 Wellington steak. A favourite of the Duke of Wellington. Excellent for those who like their steak underdone. 1989She (BNC) Oct. Restaurant food veers from absurdly chi chi—as in elk Wellington—to savagely basic. 1999Food & Wine Apr. 26/2 The English-trained chef..prepares African–British menus, from traditional British roast beef with Yorkshire pudding to crocodile curry with pappadams to ostrich Wellington with spiced rice. |