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▪ I. † mazarine, n.1 Obs.
Also 7 mazerine, 8 massereen, mazareen.
[Of obscure history.
Phillips 1706 mentions a phrase à la mazarine (not given by Fr. lexicographers), used to designate a particular mode of dressing fowls, and possibly f. the name of Cardinal Mazarin (died 1662) prime minister of France, or of the Duchesse de Mazarin, who died at Chelsea in 1699. Mazarine dish, plate, may perh. be attributive uses of this word.]
a. In early use also mazarine dish, mazarine plate: A deep plate, usually of metal.
b. (See quot. 1706.)
1673Marvell Reh. Transp. ii. Wks. (Grosart) III. 451 What ragousts had here been for you to have furnish'd the Mazarines on your table! 1674Lond. Gaz. No. 863/4 Stoln..Seven Mazarine Plates, One Mazarine Plate of a smaller size, Ten Pottage Plates [etc.]. 1687Ibid. No. 2237/4 Stolen.. 18 Plates, 4 deep ones or Mazarines. 1688Ibid. No. 2315/8 There has been lately stolen out of Her Majesty's Kitchen, a Silver Mazarine Dish. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Mazarines, a kind of little Dishes to be set in the middle of a large Dish for the setting out of Ragoos, or Fricassies; also a sort of small Tarts fill'd with Sweet-meats. 1736Bailey Housh. Dict. 234 Put them on a mazarine and bake them. 1747H. Glasse Cookery xiv. (1796) 224 When that is done, set it into a massereen, throw sugar all over, and garnish with orange. 1773Lond. Chron. 7 Sept. 248/3 Mazareens.
▪ II. mazarine, n.2 and a.|mæzəˈriːn|
Also 7 mazarien, 8 mazerene, mazarene, 7–9 mazarin.
[Perh. from the name either of Cardinal Mazarin or of the Duchesse de Mazarin (see prec.); but evidence is wanting. (Not in Fr. Dicts.)]
1. In full mazarine blue: A deep rich blue.
1686Lond. Gaz. No. 2150/4 The other [saddle] with Gold, Silver, and Silk, of several Colours, upon Mazarine Blue Velvet. 1753Discov. J. Poulter (ed. 2) 16 We sold..the Mazerene blue Coat for one Pound. 1819G. Samouelle Entomol. Compend. 381 Mazarine blue moth (Lycæna Cymon). 1879J. J. Young Ceram. Art 132 The mazarine blue is similarly treated.
2. A stuff or a garment of a mazarine blue colour.
1694Lond. Gaz. No. 3003/4 The Coach was lined with blue Shag or Mazarien. 1766[Anstey] Bath Guide ix. 92 Bring my silver'd mazarine, Sweetest gown that e'er was seen.
b. A London common-councilman; so called from his mazarine blue gown.
1761Ann. Reg. 238 Mr. ―, who was..a mazarine...It is a sort of nick-name given to the common-councilmen on account of their wearing mazarine blue silk gowns upon this occasion [Lord Mayor's day].
3. as adj. Of a mazarine blue colour.
1684Lond. Gaz. No. 1959/4 He hath on a Nutmeg colored Coat, faced with Mazarine Shag at the hands. 1688Ibid. No. 2405/4 A bay Nag..with a Mazarene Saddle. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt xxxi, Some with the orange-coloured ribbons and streamers of the true Tory candidate, some with the mazarine of the Whig.
▪ III. † mazarine, v. Obs.
In 7 mazzarine.
[Prob. from the name of the Duchesse de Mazarin: see mazarine n.1]
trans. To decorate with lace in some particular manner.
1694Acct. for lace supplied to Q. Mary in Mrs. Palliser's Hist. Lace (1902) 343 Three yards of lace to mazzarine ye pinners at 25 shillings. |