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Orleans|ˈɔːliːənz|
[Name of a city in France, giving the title to a dukedom.]
1. A variety of plum.
1664Evelyn Kal. Hort. (1729) 233 Fruit-Trees..for a moderate Plantation:..Newington, excellent. Orleans, Persique. 1770Foote Lame Lover iii. Wks. 1799 II. 86 The green gages, or the orleans. 1860Piesse Lab. Chem. Wonders 121 Orleans, greengages, damsons, and all plums.
attrib.1761Fitzgerald in Phil. Trans. LII. 71 The main arms of an Orleans plumb-tree. 1771F. Burney Early Diary, Let. to M. Allen, I..desire that I may have a boil'd Orlean plomb pudding for my dinner.
2. A fabric of cotton warp and worsted weft, brought alternately to the surface in weaving.
According to Beck, Draper's Dict., introduced in 1837, and the first fabric of the kind known in England.
1844G. Dodd Textile Manuf. iv. 137 There are two kinds of stuff now made, called ‘Orleans’ and ‘Paramatta’ (why so named, it would probably be difficult to say) apparently formed of worsted, but the weft only is of worsted, the warp being cotton. |