单词 | clothier |
释义 | clothiern. One engaged in the cloth trade: (a) a maker of woollen cloth; (b) esp. one who performs the operations subsequent to the weaving (archaic); (c) a fuller and dresser of cloth (U.S.); (d) a seller of cloth and men's clothes. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in textiles, clothing, or yarns mercerc1230 clothier1362 draper1362 woolman1390 yarn-chopper1429 line-draper1436 Welsh drapera1525 telerc1540 purple-seller1547 linen-draper1549 staplera1552 silkman1553 woollen-draper1554 wool-driver1555 woolster1577 linener1616 woolner1619 linen-man1631 ragman1649 rag merchant1665 slop-seller1665 bodice-seller1672 piece-broker1697 wool-stapler1709 cloth-man1723 Manchester-man1755 fleece-merchanta1774 rag dealer1777 man's mercer1789 keelman1821 man-mercer1837 cotton-broker1849 slopper1854 shoddyite1865 costumier1886 cotton-man1906 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > manufacture of fabric from specific materials > manufacture of wool or woollen based fabrics > one who clothier1362 cloth-maker1382 Welsh drapera1525 cloth-worker1528 cloth-man1538 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. xi. 18 But hit beo [cardet] with Couetise as cloþers doþ heor wolle. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. x. 18 As clotheres kemben here wolle. c1470 in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1859) II. 285 Yt ys necessary to every clothyer. ?1518 Cocke Lorelles Bote sig. B.vv Waxechaundelers, clothers, and grocers. 1533–4 Act 25 Hen. VIII c. 18 (title) Clothears, or makers of wollen clothes. a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 63 The clothyarys of englond. 1575 G. Gascoigne Fruites of Warre lxiii, in Posies sig. Hviiv The Clothier coynes by carding locks of wooll. 1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. vi. 107 Leeds, Hallifax, and Bradford, three very populous, and rich Towns..depending wholely upon Clothiers. 1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Clothier, in English authors, a man who makes cloths..In this sense, I believe, it is not used in the United States; certainly not in New-England. In America, a man, whose occupation is to full and dress cloth. 1843 Penny Cycl. XXVII. 555/2 The master-clothier..employs in all the different processes through which the wool passes in the course of manufacture, distinct classes of persons, who sometimes work at their own houses, and sometimes in the factory of the master-clothier. 1869 S. Baring-Gould Origin Relig. Belief I. ii. 50 A tailor and a clothier. 1885 C. Mackeson in Brit. Almanac Compan. 94 In some parts of the country identical titles are very differently applied. Among the double meanings..[are] Clothier for Clothmaker or Clothes-dealer. Compounds clothier-bee n. = carder n.1 1c . ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > member of family Bombidae (bumble-bee) > bombus muscorum carding bee1781 carder1830 moss bee1832 moss carder1853 clothier-bee1864 1864 Intellectual Observer No. 34. 281 The solitary clothier-bee. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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