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单词 clavellated
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clavellatedadj.

Etymology: < medieval Latin clāvellātus (cineres clavellati, clavati, Du Cange), Old French clavelée, in cendre clavelée, modern French cendre gravelée, lit. ‘granulated ashes’, which Littré takes as the proper form: but on phonetic grounds this is doubtful.
Obsolete.
1. in clavellated ashes: ‘Potash of superior quality obtained from the dried and calcined lees of wine, for the use of dyers’ (Godefroy).
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > colour > colouring > dyeing > [noun] > material used in dyeing
woad ash1354
clavellated ashes1660
slip1667
white bath1791
1660 J. Harding tr. Paracelsus Archidoxis ii. 58 Of the Alkali of the Ashes..we make a clavellated gnawing Salt.
1683 W. Salmon Doron Medicum ii. 504 Clavellated or gravelled Ashes are nothing else but the calx of the Lees of Wine, etc., etc.
1733 J. Arbuthnot Ess. Effects Air Human Bodies 66 Air, transmitted through clavellated Ashes into an exhausted Receiver, loses Weight.
2. [as < clāva club] Shaped like a little club.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > shape > condition of being short and thick or broad > [adjective]
stoba1500
stubbeda1529
stubbleda1529
strunt1577
stumpy1600
chubby1611
stumpish1618
chubbed1674
squat1684
chubbish1685
chub1688
squabbed1694
cloddy1712
clavellated1713
pluggy1720
squab1723
puddy1747
tubbish1786
stunt1788
bunting1808–25
dumpy1808
clumpy1820
dubby1825
stubby1831
chunky1833
snubbed1835
tubby1835
pudgy1862
squatty1881
squidgy1891
1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. viii. iv. 402 The lamellated Antennæ of some, the clavellated of others.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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adj.1660
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