| 释义 |
kersey Now rare.|ˈkɜːzɪ|
Also 5 kerseye, 5–6 carsey, -say, 6 carsy(e, -soye, -ssey, -esye, cassaye, kersay, karsey, 6–7 karsie, carsie, -zie, 6–8 kersie, -sy, 7 kerzie.
[Possibly named from the village of Kersey in Suffolk, (cf. Kendal, Worsted, etc., as names of fabrics); though evidence actually connecting the original manufacture of the cloth with that place has not been found. See note below.]
1. A kind of coarse narrow cloth, woven from long wool and usually ribbed.
1390Earl Derby's Exp. (Camden) 89 Pro iijbus vlnis et di. de kersey. 1481Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 17 Item, half yerd kersey for my lady. 1502Ld. Treas. Acc. Scot. II. 198 For iij elne quhit carsay to be ane cote to the King xiijs. vjd. 1543–4Old City Acc. Bk. in Archæol. Jrnl. XLIII, For iij quarters of yallow carssey for hose xv1. 1580Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 443 The Sunne..shineth aswel vpon course carsie, as cloth of tissue. 1607Rowlands Dr. Merrie-man (1609) 6 The Stockings that his clownish Legges did fit, Were Kersie to the calfe, and t'other knit. 1724Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (1733) II. 170 Her stockings were of Kersy green As tight as ony silk. 1772–84Cook Voy. (1790) I. 164 English broad-cloth, and red Kersey they highly esteemed. 1834H. Martineau Moral i. 17 A substantial petticoat of serge or cloak of kersey.
2. With a and pl.
†a. A piece of kersey of a definite size. Obs.
b. A make or variety of kersey (chiefly in pl.).
In the 16–17th c. kerseys are commonly contrasted with cloths or broad-cloth; the size of the latter was fixed by the statute of 1465 as 24 yds. long by 2 wide, while a kersey was only 18 yds. long and a yard and a nail in width. The act of 1552 enumerates various kinds of kerseys, as ordinary, sorting, Devonshire (called dozens), and check kerseys, and fixes their length as between 17 and 18 yards; in 1557 this was reduced to between 16 and 17. About 1618 we find three kersies reckoned as equal to one cloth (see cloth 8).
1465Act 4 Edw. IV, c. 1 Ordeignez est..que chescun drap appelle Kersie..conteigne en longeure xviij aulnes..& en laeure une aulne & la naile [etc.]. 1517Act Com. Counc. 8 Hen. VIII, Broad-Cloths, Carsies, Cottons, Bridge⁓water Frizes, Dosseins, or any other manner of Cloth made of wool. 1545Brinklow Compl. ii. (1874) 12 Demand the clothyer, if he lyued not better whan he sold..his carseys for xxij or xxiij pownd the pack. 1599Hakluyt Voy. II. i. 127 Also we had three kintals of cotten wooll for a carsie. 1603Breton Poste with Packet D iij, I have sent you over fourscore broadclothes and thirty carzies. 1769De Foe's Tour Gt. Brit. III. 148 The great Demand of Kerseys for cloathing the Armies abroad. 1810J. T. in Risdon's Surv. Devon p. xxiv, The Devonshire kersies were..in great request, and were generally known by the name of Tiverton kersies.
†c. pl. = sense 1. Obs.
1567in Hay Fleming Mary Q. of Scots (1897) 506 Item to be cotte and hoyss of blew carsis. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 146 Short wide stockings of English cloth or Kersies.
3. pl. Trousers made of kersey.
1831Carlyle Sart. Res. i. ix, Girt with thick double-milled kerseys; half buried under shawls and broadbrims. 1864Payn Lost Sir Massingberd 84 He was dressed in a blue lapelled coat, light waistcoat, and kerseys.
4. attrib. or as adj. Made of kersey.
1577Harrison England ii. vii. (1877) i. 172 An English⁓man..contented himselfe with his fine carsie hosen. 1594Plat Jewell-ho. ii. 41 Let the same runne through a course white karsey gellie bagge. 1602Warner Alb. Eng. ix. xlvii. (1612) 218 Blacke karsie stockings. 1714Gay Sheph. Week ii. 37 Thy neckcloth..o'er thy Kersey Doublet spreading wide. 1822Scott Nigel xvii, The old gentlemen in the kersey hood.
†b. fig. Plain, homely. Obs.
1588Shakes. L.L.L. v. ii. 413 Henceforth my woinge minde shall be exprest In russet yeas and honest kersie noes.
5. Comb., as kersey-clothier, kersey maker.
1587Fleming Contin. Holinshed III. 1010/2 Now it is cheeflie inhabited with merchants, kersie-clothiers, and all sorts of artificers. 1598Stow Surv. London (1754) II. v. ix. 267/1 Cloth and Kersy making decayed.
Hence † ˈkersey v., to clothe in kersey. rare—1.
1627–47Feltham Resolves i. xxviii. 94 When the sun-bak'd Peasant goes to feast it with a Gentleman, he washes, and brushes, and kersies himself in his holy day cloathes.
[Note. Historically the evidence is in favour of the name being of English origin; Caersige was the OE. form of Kersey in Suffolk (Earle Land Charters 484). Panni cersegi were manufactured in England in 1262; Kerseyes were important English exports in 1390; drap de Kersy is mentioned along with other fabrics named from places in 1399; carisies d'Angleterre are mentioned in French in 1630 (Godef. Compl.), and kentischer kirsey in German in 1716 (Grimm).
At an early date the word appears in OF. as carizé, carisé (1453 in Godef. Compl.), later carisie and carisel. It is also common in MDu. as kerseye, kaersay, carcey, etc. (mod.Du. karsaai), and is found in G. as kirsei, kirschei (earlier carisey); also Da. kersei, kirsei, and Sw. kersing. It. and Sp. carisea are app. from the older F. forms.
1262in Gross Gild Merch. II. 4 (Gild Merchant of Andover) Memorandum de illis qui ponunt lanam de Ispania in pannis cersegis [mispr. tersegis]. 1390Rolls of Parlt. III. 281/2 Les liges du Roialme qe amesnent une manere de Marchandise appellez Kerseyes as parties de dela. Ibid. 282/1 Touchant l'envoye des ditz Kerseyes franchement. 1399Ibid. III. 437 Nul Drap de Kersy, Kendale-cloth, Frise de Coventree, Coggeware, ne nulle autre estreit ne remenant d'Engleterre, ne Drap de Gales, ne soloient..paier nul Coket ne autre Custume. ] |