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Osnaburg
Also with lower-case initial. Forms: 6 Osenbreges, Ossenbrydge, Ostenbriges, Ozenbridg(e, (Osburow), 7 Osenbrigs, 8 Oz-, Osnabrigs, -brug, Ozenbrigs; 7 Ossenburgs, 8 Osnaburgh, 8–9 Osnaburg.
[Named from Osnabrück (in later Eng. corruptly Osnaburg), a town and district in North Germany, noted for its manufacture of linen.]
A kind of coarse linen originally made in Osnabrück.
1545Rates of Customs c j, Osenbreges the roule xl. 1554–5in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) III. 363, ix yeardes of Ossenbrydge for a towell to the hye tabyll, iiijs. vjd. 1597Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees 1860) 282, xxi yds of osburow 31s. 6d. 1669Narborough Jrnl. in Acc. Sev. Late Voy. (1694) i. 2 Cloth, Osenbrigs, Tobacco. 1732Pennsylv. Col. Rec. (1853) III. 430 That to each there be given a couple of Shirts, a Jackett and two pair of trowsers of Oznabrigs. 1733P. Lindsay Interest Scot. 117 Osnaburgs and other low pric'd foreign goods of that kind..ought likewise to be subjected to a duty. 1757Washington Lett. Writ. 1889 I. 490, I..beg the favor of you to choose me about 250 yds. osnabrigs. 1791T. Newte Tour Eng. & Scot. 205 A great deal of coarse linen cloth, called Osnaburghs, is made here for exportation. 1799J. Robertson Agric. Perth 381 In some of the villages of the Carse of Gowrie, the inhabitants manufacture osnaburgs. 1827Roberts Voy. Centr. Amer. 36 In exchange we gave them ravenduck, osnaburg, checks, blue-baftas and other manufactured goods. 1917J. Hergesheimer Three Black Pennys (1918) 38 Tobacco and shoes, ozenbrigs and molasses and rum. 1938M. K. Rawlings Yearling xi. 110 Beyond the utensils were the dress goods; calico and Osnaburg, denim and shoddy, domestic and homespun. 1949Caribbean Q. I. i. 12 Every October cloth was issued, at the rate of seven yards of osnaburgs. 1959Potter & Corbman Fiber to Fabric (ed. 3) ix. 153 When made of waste mixed with low⁓grade cotton it is known as part-waste osnaburg.
b. attrib., made of Osnaburg linen.
1681Rec. Court. of New Castle on Delaware (1904) 493 Twoo Remnants of Osnabriggs Linnen. 1758in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1874) XII. 145 Others very much soaked in their Osombrige Tents. 1774in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1911) VI. 41 John Johnson..had on..a pair of leather breeches and osnabrig trousers. 1813J. Taylor Arator 137 A regular supply of a winter's coat,..two oznaburg shirts, a good hat and blanket. 1841Southern Lit. Messenger VII. 775/2 Our slaves in the South-West are annually supplied with two cotton Oznaburg shirts. 1863‘E. Kirke’ My Southern Friends vii. 99 The thin Osnaburg gown. |