| 单词 | chicken-skin glove |
| 释义 | > as lemmaschicken-skin glove 1. The very fine skin of (often unborn) lambs, kids, or calves; esp. such skin used to make gloves and fans. Frequently as a modifier, esp. in chicken-skin glove. Cf. kid-skin n., Limerick n. 5. Now historical.Chicken-skin gloves were believed to lighten and soften the skin of the hands when worn overnight; such gloves were popular esp. in the 18th cent. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > leather > [noun] > other types of leather redlashOE lasch14.. leather-hungry1478 spruce1570 chicken skina1685 bridle leather1794 russet1813 goose-skin1826 Levant1880 whang1883 Persian1889 nubuck1912 a1685 M. Evelyn Mundus Muliebris (1690) 6 Gloves..Some of Chicken skin for night, To keep her Hands plump, soft, and white. 1762 St. James's Chron. 1–3 Apr. What Lady would not chuse to smooth and polish her Skin with these new-invented French Chicken Skin Gloves? 1788 E. Wallace Ton i. ii. 6 Those chicken-skin gloves are very bad, I must enquire of Moseneau to day for more softening. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xiii. 95 They [sc. Californians]..buy..‘chicken-skin’ boots at fifteen dollars apiece. 1875 E. Yates Wages of Sin ix, in Cambr. (Mass.) Chron. 6 Mar. 2/1 A fan of chicken-skin which had once been the property of a beauty of the Regency. 1989 Miller's Collectables Price Guide 1989–90 I. 183/3 A French fan with elaborately carved ivory sticks, with painted chicken skin leaf, 1760. < as lemmas |
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