单词 | ciclatoun |
释义 | † ciclatounn. Obsolete. a. A precious material much esteemed in the Middle Ages; in the first quot. perhaps ‘scarlet cloth’; in others it is cloth of gold or other rich material. Perhaps sometimes, a robe or mantle of this stuff (cf. Godefroy). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric with specific qualities > [noun] > rich or costly pallOE ciclatouna1225 scarletc1250 tars1377 cockea1382 coccyn1382 coctin1382 Welsh scarletc1400 gold tissed1585 checklaton1596 cyclas1834 a1225 Juliana 8 Al þe tur wes bitild wið purpre, wið pal, & wið ciclatun. a1240 Ureisun of ure Lefdi 193 Al þin hird is i-schrud mid hwite ciclatune. 1295 Inv. St. Paul's Cathedral in Monasticon Angl. III. 316 (Du Cange) Capa Johannis Maunself de panno aureo qui vocatur ciclaton.] c1325 Coer de L. 2308 Of silk, cendale, and syclatoun, Was the emperour's pavyloun. c1386 G. Chaucer Sir Thopas 23 His Robe was of Syklatoun That coste many a Jane. c1400 St. Alexius (Laud 622) 397 Ciclatounes þat weren of prijs, Pelured wiþ Ermyne & wiþ grijs, Alte she cast away. b. The word became obsolete apparently by 1400: the following are notices or conjectures of later writers. ΚΠ a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 49 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) Chaucer..describeth Sir Thopas apparell..as hee went to fight..in his robe of Shecklaton, which is that kind of guilded leather with which they use to imbroyder their Irish Iackets. 1849–53 D. Rock Church of our Fathers II. 279 Ciclatoun and baudekin and every other sort of cloth of gold. 1870 D. Rock Textile Fabrics (S. Kensington Mus.) Introd. p. xxxix Thin glossy silken stuff..here called first by its Persian name which came with it, ciclatoun, that is, bright and shining. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.a1225 |
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