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none-so-pretty, n. (and a.)
1. Some article of haberdashery. Also as adj. Now only Hist.
c1700in N. & Q. 9th Ser. X. 88/1 Webb-Cane and Leather Hooping, Gartering of all Sorts, Nonesopretties, Pins and Needles, Inkle and Spinnel. 1759St. Papers in Ann. Reg. 201, 1 [piece] cotton romals, 4 ditto, none-so-pretties, 8 lb. coloured thread. 1771in A. M. Earle Costume Col. Times (1894) 173 None-so-Pretty Tapes. 1804W. Clark in Orig. Jrnls. of Lewis & Clark Exped. (1905) VI. 271 For Indians Presents..10 pieces Nonsoprettys. 1969R. T. Wilcox Dict. Costume 248/1 None-so-pretties, fancy, decorative tapes used for trimming garments in the eighteenth century in the American Colonies.
2. The plant London Pride. (Cf. nancy-pretty.)
1731Miller Gard. Dict. s.v. Geum, London Pride, or None so Pretty. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. App., None-so-pretty, a popular name for the Geum of botanical authors. 1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 320 None so pretty, Saxifraga. 1796Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 404. 1884 Black Jud. Shakespeare xii, Pansies, snapdragon, none-so-pretty. |