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Petersham|ˈpiːtəʃəm|
[Named after Viscount Petersham, c 1812.]
(attrib., or ellipt. as n.) a. Name for a kind of heavy overcoat or breeches formerly fashionable; also for the cloth of which such overcoats are made.
1812Sporting Mag. XL. 95 What crowding and jostling to get a side view Of my Petersham breeches and coat of sky-blue. 1819Hermit in London III. 82 Put on my dowlas Petershams, half-stockings, and dicky. 1863R. H. Gronow Recollect. ii. 154 The Viscount [Petersham] was likewise a great Mæcenas among the tailors, and a particular kind of great⁓coat when I was a young man was called a Petersham. 1864Athenæum 29 Oct. 558/3 We deal with less disputable matters when we come to Petersham coats, so called from the head of the ‘Dandies’ of half-a-century ago, who after⁓wards became Earl of Harrington. 1904Woollen Draper's Terms in Tailor & Cutt. 4 Aug. 479/3 Petersham Cloth: A heavy woollen cloth having a round nap surface; used for heavy overcoats.
b. Name for a thick kind of ribbon of ribbed or corded silk used for strengthening the waists of women's dresses, and for belts and hatbands.
1873Young Englishwoman Mar. 147/2 Waistband Petersham, and all the odds and ends of needlework. 1930V. Sackville-West Edwardians ii. 62 Miss Wace..affected a dress of heliotrope serge with a stiff petersham belt. 1957Terms & Definitions (Textile Inst.) (ed. 3) 82 Petersham ribbon (millinery), a ribbon usually with silk or rayon warp and having single picks of relatively coarse weft. Ibid., Petersham ribbon (skirt), a narrow-fabric having a pronounced rib weft-way composed of one or more picks per rib and having lateral stiffness. 1972Daily Tel. 18 May 9/2 The jacket was edged in navy petersham and fastened with navy and gold buttons.
c. A style of hat.
1825H. Wilson Mem. III. 65 His little Petersham hat seemed to have been remit de nouveau, for the third time, at least. |