† chicken gloven.
Obsolete.
Usually in plural. A type of thin delicate glove made from very fine lamb, kid, or calf skin; = chicken-skin glove at chicken skin n. 1.Chicken gloves were sometimes made of the skin of unborn calves, giving them a pale, thin, almost transparent quality, perhaps thought to resemble chicken skin. They were believed to lighten and soften the skin of the hands when worn overnight, and were popular esp. in the 18th cent.
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kid-skin glove1645
chicken glove1762
kid glove1832
Berlin1836
string glove1949
1762 Lloyd's Evening Post 17 May 476/2 The true-prepared French Chicken Gloves, for clearing and whitening the arms, perfumed and plain.
1810 T. Mortimer Gen. Dict. Commerce, Trade, & Manuf. at Gloves The Limerick gloves, likewise called chicken gloves, are made of leather, and are remarkably fine.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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