| 单词 | cloth of tars |
| 释义 | > as lemmascloth of tars A rich and costly stuff of eastern origin, used in the West in the 14th and 15th centuries. Also cloth of tars. 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 1295 Visitatio Thesaur. S. Pauli Londin. (Du Cange) Casula de panno Tarsico, Indici coloris.] 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xv. 163 As gladde of a goune of a graye russet As of a tunicle of tarse or of trye scarlet. a1400–50 Alexander 1515 [He] arais all þe cite, Braidis ouire with bawdkyns all þe brade stretis, With tars & with tafeta þar he trede sulde. a1400–50 Alexander 4673 Doubeletis of damaske & sum of dere tars. ?a1400 Morte Arth. 3190 In toges of tarsse fulle richelye attyrde. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 571 Dubbed in a dublet of a dere tars. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) vi. 20 Cledd in clathe of gold or tars, or in chamelet. 1834 J. R. Planché Hist. Brit. Costume 105 The rich stuff called ‘cloth of tars’ is mentioned in this reign [Edw. I]. It was latinized tarsicus and tartarinus. 1880 G. C. M. Birdwood Indian Arts II. 74 Cloth of Tars is from Tarsus, or perhaps from Tabriz.] < as lemmas |
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