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▪ I. Saxony, n.|ˈsæksənɪ|
[ad. late L. Saxonia, the country of the Saxons, f. Saxon- Saxon.
In ME. the name of the country appears in the forms Saxon, Saxoyne, Sexone, Sessoyne (after OF. Saxoine, Sessoyne); the similar use of Saxon in Chapman's Alphonsus (a 1634) may be from the mod.G. Sachsen.]
The name of a former kingdom of Germany (in Ger. Sachsen, in Fr. Saxe), used attrib. to designate products of the country: esp.
1. a. A fine kind of wool, and cloth made from it. Also absol. = Saxony-cloth.
Several distinct kinds of fabric are thus designated: Saxony coating, Saxony wool made in coating styles; Saxony flannel, Saxony wool in flannel weight and finish, usually scarlet; Saxony cord, a black ribbed material with cotton warp and Saxony weft, used for cassocks and academic robes.
1842Punch III. 74/2 House-painters, and others, will obstinately refuse to do their daily work in superfine Saxony. 1844Thackeray Box of Novels Wks. 1900 XIII. 412 His Saxony-cloth surtout. 1853R. S. Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour (1893) 333 Mr. Sponge forthwith proceeded to put his brown boots,..his dress blue saxony, his clean linen,..into his solid leather portmanteau. 1888Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 654/2 Specimens of the finest Saxony wools.
b. spec. This wool used in making carpets. Also, a synthetic material resembling Saxony used similarly.
1910S. Humphries Oriental Carpets iv. 300 Saxony Pile Carpets.—Made in precisely the same way as the Brussels variety... The Saxony Brussels and Saxony Velvet yarns. 1924R. Beaumont Carpets & Rugs viii. 298 Examples in Saxony or the longer variety of ‘velvet’ carpet... In..Saxony velvets the design and colour element may be as clearly delineated as in Wiltons. 1933Heal & Son Catal. Carpet..; seamless ‘Saxony’, various colours. 1976Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 3 Oct. 3/3 (Advt.), A well⁓constructed, full-bodied saxony nylon that is versatile and long-wearing.
2. Saxony blue: a solution of indigo in concentrated sulphuric acid, much used as a dye. Also Saxon blue (see Saxon a. 3 b).
1857Miller Elem. Chem. III. 616. 1863 Chamb. Encycl. V. 559/1.
▪ II. † ˈSaxony, a. Obs. rare—1.
[? f. Saxon + -y.]
= saxonish.
1565J. Halle Lanfranc's Cirurgia parua Ded. ⁋ j, Whiche was translated out of Frenche into the olde Saxony englishe, about two hundred yeres past. |