Dunstablen.adj.

Brit.

/ˈdʌnstəbl/, U.S.

/ˈdənstəb(ə)l/

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Dunstable.

Etymology: < Dunstable, the name of a town in Bedfordshire, formerly known for its straw plaiting industry.In sense A. 1 probably with reference to the straight and level Roman road (part of Watling Street) running towards and through Dunstable.

A. n.

†1. In Dunstable highway, Dunstable road, Dunstable way, the way to Dunstable, etc., as the type of something simple, straightforward, or direct (see note in etymology).

a. In the proverbial phrase as plain as Dunstable highway (also road, way), as plain as the way to Dunstable, etc. Obsolete.Later also with highway, way, road omitted or used in a different grammatical construction, usually for reasons of rhyme (e.g. quots. 1658, 1776).

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > [noun] > direct and straight > type of something direct and straight

Dunstable way1577

1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. v. sig. Hii^v Were ye as playne as Dunstable hye waie. Yet shulde ye that waie rather breake a loue daie, Than make one.

1577 J. Bishop Beautifull Blossomes To Rdr. sig. ¶.iii^v Let them passe it ouer, and reade the rest: whiche are all pleasant, and as plaine as Dunstable way.

1596 J. Harington New Disc. Aiax sig. H5 Indeed for the deuise I graunt it is as plaine as dunstable high way.

?1609 J. Healey tr. Bp. J. Hall Discouery New World i. vi. 86 Hee..shewed mee the way, as plaine as Dunstable roade.

1658 T. Flatman Naps upon Parnassus sig. C If thou wouldst write (as we say) plain as Dunstable; We might then apprehend thee; but not Constable Now can do't.

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Bedf. 114 As plain as Dunstable Road. It is applied to things plain and simple without welt or guard to adorne them, as also to matters easie and obvious to be found without any difficulty or direction.

1682 H. Care Hist. Popery IV. 144 All this, if need be, we will have proved as plain as the way to Dunstable in the next Observator.

1776 Asylum Fugitives I. 39 As plain as road is to Dunstable, I'll prove there's treason in that fable.

b. In wider uses alluding to the proverbial phrase. In early use usually preceded by plain (cf. senses A. 2, B.). Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie sig. Bii Some..that walked in y^e kynges highe waye ordinarilye, vprightlye, playne Dunstable waye.

1617 J. Swetnam Schoole Sci. Defence xii. 162 There is a backe blow which is to be made two waies, the one is a plaine Dunstable way, that is, to fetch thy sword from off thy left shoulder, & so to strike it to the right side of thy enimies head.

1675 V. Alsop Anti-Sozzo iii. 132 It will quit for Cost little better than the plain Dunstable high-way of Favour, Alliance, and Bribery.

1681 T. Langford Plain Instr. Fruit-trees To Rdr. sig. A3^v I..shewed the plain Dunstable way to the propagating of all manner of Fruit-trees, without leading the learner through bushes, and a wilderness of Words.

1703 W. Nicholls Conf. with Theist V. 8 I cannot endure to go jogging on in the dull Dunstable Road of Divinity, where things are said over and over in the same way.

1744 W. Warburton Remarks Occas. Refl. 128 I would advise him to return again as fast as he can into the old Dunstable Road of Moses and a future State for ever.

1834 R. Southey Doctor I. 86 In his way through the world, which had not been along the King's high Dunstable road, Guy had picked up a competent share of Latin.

†2. plain (later also downright) Dunstable: simple, direct, or honest speech or language; plain speaking; (with the) the unvarnished truth. Cf. sense A. 1b, B. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > plain or straightforward language

plain Englisha1438

plain languagec1450

yeomanryc1500

plain (later also downright) Dunstable1578

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > plainness > [noun] > plain language

plain Englisha1438

plain (later also downright) Dunstable1578

straight talk1894

outspeech1919

1578 J. Walsall Serm. preached at Pauls Crosse iii. sig. D.vi^v We cannot, say they, away with his newe doctrine,..all is new plaine Dunstable, the seruice is in the vulgare toung, euerie bodie may vnderstand it.

1650 Man in Moon No. 39. 307 I scorne to shew you as your Pulpit Journey-men doe, but must tell you in plaine down-right Dunstable, That never a Rebell of you all doth believe there is a God.

1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd (ed. 2) II. iv. 87 Their Fore-Fathers..lov'd plain downright Dunstable.

1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. xxxii. 215 That's the plain Dunstable of the matter, Miss!

1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet III. iv. 116 If this is not plain speaking, there is no such place as downright Dunstable in being!

1928 V. Woolf Orlando iv. 218 The plain Dunstable of the matter is, that I'm not in the mood for the society of the other sex to-night.

a. attributive. Designating a kind of plaited straw, originally made in Dunstable from coarse split straw, and characteristically used for hats and bonnets (see sense A. 4a), as Dunstable braid, Dunstable plait.

ΚΠ

1790 J. Woodforde Diary 6 Dec. (1927) III. 231 Mrs. Constance made my Niece a Present of a Dunstable Straw Basket for Work with 2 Covers.

1824 Daily National Jrnl. (Washington, D.C.) 24 Nov. A beautiful Straw Bonnet, of the Dunstable braid, was exhibited by Clarissa Newton.

1848 Lady's Newspaper 8 Apr. 290/3 By a strange caprice of fashion, those of the commonest description are at present the most distingué; we allude to the coarse broad Dunstable plait.

1908 E. Jackson Toys of other Days iv. 57 A milliner's shop shows a fine display of miniature bonnets... Some are of the finest Dunstable straw plait, some of Leghorn, others of crinoline or buckram.

1931 A. C. Train Puritan's Progress viii. 149 On his head he wore a hat of Dunstable braid.

2002 N. Verdon Rural Women Workers in 19th-Century Eng. v. 136 Luton Museum's collection includes the account books of Henry Horn, a Dunstable plait dealer.

†b. Straw plaited or braided in the style associated with Dunstable. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1817 Liverpool Mercury 1 Aug. 40/2 (advt.) Patent Dunstable.

1821 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 20 Mar. (advt.) To straw hat manufacturers, &c. John Smith, will sell by wholesale..patent and whole Dunstable.

1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. II. 377 Plait straw is the straw of the wheat..grown on dry chalky lands, such as those about Dunstable..‘Whole Dunstable’, signifies that the plait is formed of seven entire straws, and ‘patent Dunstable’, that it consists of fourteen split straws.

1891 Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 9 May The most fashionable combination in millinery is now a mixture of..fine chip or Dunstable and fancy lace Tuscan borders.

a. attributive. Designating a hat or bonnet made from a distinctive kind of plaited straw associated with Dunstable (see sense A. 3a), as Dunstable bonnet, Dunstable hat. Now chiefly historical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [adjective] > hat > made of specific material > other

Leghorn1720

Dunstable1792

Milan1855

shaved1861

1792 Oracle 23 June (advt.) A very large Assortment of Dunstable, Leghorn, Willow, Caledonian, and other Fancy Hats and Bonnets.

1796 E. Hamilton Let. 21 Sept. in J. C. Jeaffreson Lady Hamilton & Nelson (1888) I. xviii. 317 Send me..a Dunstable hat, and some ribbands.

1826 J. Wilson et al. Noctes Ambrosianae xxvii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 94 I..found myself sitting in a pew between two very good-looking middle-aged women, in Dunstable bonnets, streaming with ribbons.

1829 P. Egan Boxiana New Ser. II. 681 Hall..went briskly into the ring, and tossed up his Dunstable straw with an air of confidence.

1903 A. E. Barr Black Shilling vi. 121 On her head was one of those pretty Dunstable hats, for which England has been famous from an unknown date.

2000 D. E. Pilato Retrieval of Legacy ii. 36 The Wethersfield bonnet and the Dunstable bonnet became popular American styles.

†b. A Dunstable hat or bonnet. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > made of specific material > straw > types of

Dunstable1805

Leghorn1810

skimmer1830

Tuscan hat1830

boating hat1840

mushroom1843

Milan hat1855

toering1855

bergère hat1873

Zulu hat1880

boater1882

boat hat1889

straw yard1900

donkey's breakfast1901

brimmer1902

straw boater1905

balibuntal1913

1805 Aberdeen Jrnl. 27 Feb. (advt.) Dunstables from 2s. to 10s.

a1854 E. Grant Mem. Highland Lady (1988) I. v. 92 We had all straw bonnets alike, coarse dunstables lined and trimmed with green.

1916 Illustr. Milliner Feb. 5 m/1 Dunstables $30.00 to $60.00 per dozen.

†B. adj.

Simple, basic, uncomplicated; spec. straightforward, honest, or direct in one's speech or dealings. Often preceded by plain, (later) downright. Cf. earlier sense A. 1b. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > sincerity, freedom from deceit > [adjective]

aefauldOE

trueOE

true as steela1300

throlya1375

entirec1380

faithfula1382

entirelyc1400

single1519

sincere1533

sincere1539

simple-minded1556

Dunstable?1565

truthful?1567

single-hearted1574

single-minded1577

sound1580

downright1584

unaffected1592

real1597

plain-hearted1601

unartificial1603

free1619

honest1634

fair and square1636

round-dealing1642

wholehearted1657

down flata1663

well-designing1670

heart-whole1684

single-eyed1705

unsanctimoniousa1797

natural1825

bona fide1827

unfallacious1827

jannock1828

forthcoming1835

up and down1836

bonified1840

forthgoing1851

unhypocritical1854

forthright1855

upstanding1863

on the level1872

genuine1890

for real1954

upfront1967

?1565 A. Hartwell in tr. W. Haddon Sight of Portugall Pearle Ep. Ded. sig. Aii^v Me thynks, beinge both an Orator and a Poet, you shoulde not haue bene ignorante that playne dunstable raysing is the sclenderest shyfte in all Rhetorique.

?1589 T. Nashe Almond for Parrat sig. 19 A good old dunstable doctor here in London.

1608 H. Fitzsimon Catholike Confut. 368 Befor you betake your selfe to new grammarian labours, or dictionarie inuentions, learne to vnderstand a playne metaphorical relation of a mater, that your denials therof, because it is not in playne dunstable tearmes, be not reputed.

1696 P. A. Motteux Love's a Jest v. 60 I an't us'd to make Love, and mayn't talk so much like a Courtier (never the worse man for that) I am downright Dunstable.

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VI. xxvii. 161 Your uncle is an odd, but a very honest Dunstable soul.

1817 W. Scott Let. 17 Mar. (1933) IV. 409 Now Morritt who is Downright Dunstable would not have let this sentence slip him.

1884 Young Eng. 1 Oct. 599/2 As Jack used to say in his ‘downright Dunstable’ fashion—‘Jess was anything but fun herself, and she spoilt the fun of everyone else’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	dunstable
释义	Dunstablen.adj. Brit. /ˈdʌnstəbl/, U.S. /ˈdənstəb(ə)l/ Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Dunstable. Etymology: < Dunstable, the name of a town in Bedfordshire, formerly known for its straw plaiting industry.In sense A. 1 probably with reference to the straight and level Roman road (part of Watling Street) running towards and through Dunstable. A. n. †1. In Dunstable highway, Dunstable road, Dunstable way, the way to Dunstable, etc., as the type of something simple, straightforward, or direct (see note in etymology). a. In the proverbial phrase as plain as Dunstable highway (also road, way), as plain as the way to Dunstable, etc. Obsolete.Later also with highway, way, road omitted or used in a different grammatical construction, usually for reasons of rhyme (e.g. quots. 1658, 1776). ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > [noun] > direct and straight > type of something direct and straight Dunstable way1577 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. v. sig. Hii^v Were ye as playne as Dunstable hye waie. Yet shulde ye that waie rather breake a loue daie, Than make one. 1577 J. Bishop Beautifull Blossomes To Rdr. sig. ¶.iii^v Let them passe it ouer, and reade the rest: whiche are all pleasant, and as plaine as Dunstable way. 1596 J. Harington New Disc. Aiax sig. H5 Indeed for the deuise I graunt it is as plaine as dunstable high way. ?1609 J. Healey tr. Bp. J. Hall Discouery New World i. vi. 86 Hee..shewed mee the way, as plaine as Dunstable roade. 1658 T. Flatman Naps upon Parnassus sig. C If thou wouldst write (as we say) plain as Dunstable; We might then apprehend thee; but not Constable Now can do't. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Bedf. 114 As plain as Dunstable Road. It is applied to things plain and simple without welt or guard to adorne them, as also to matters easie and obvious to be found without any difficulty or direction. 1682 H. Care Hist. Popery IV. 144 All this, if need be, we will have proved as plain as the way to Dunstable in the next Observator. 1776 Asylum Fugitives I. 39 As plain as road is to Dunstable, I'll prove there's treason in that fable. b. In wider uses alluding to the proverbial phrase. In early use usually preceded by plain (cf. senses A. 2, B.). Obsolete. ΚΠ 1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie sig. Bii Some..that walked in y^e kynges highe waye ordinarilye, vprightlye, playne Dunstable waye. 1617 J. Swetnam Schoole Sci. Defence xii. 162 There is a backe blow which is to be made two waies, the one is a plaine Dunstable way, that is, to fetch thy sword from off thy left shoulder, & so to strike it to the right side of thy enimies head. 1675 V. Alsop Anti-Sozzo iii. 132 It will quit for Cost little better than the plain Dunstable high-way of Favour, Alliance, and Bribery. 1681 T. Langford Plain Instr. Fruit-trees To Rdr. sig. A3^v I..shewed the plain Dunstable way to the propagating of all manner of Fruit-trees, without leading the learner through bushes, and a wilderness of Words. 1703 W. Nicholls Conf. with Theist V. 8 I cannot endure to go jogging on in the dull Dunstable Road of Divinity, where things are said over and over in the same way. 1744 W. Warburton Remarks Occas. Refl. 128 I would advise him to return again as fast as he can into the old Dunstable Road of Moses and a future State for ever. 1834 R. Southey Doctor I. 86 In his way through the world, which had not been along the King's high Dunstable road, Guy had picked up a competent share of Latin. †2. plain (later also downright) Dunstable: simple, direct, or honest speech or language; plain speaking; (with the) the unvarnished truth. Cf. sense A. 1b, B. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > plain or straightforward language plain Englisha1438 plain languagec1450 yeomanryc1500 plain (later also downright) Dunstable1578 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > plainness > [noun] > plain language plain Englisha1438 plain (later also downright) Dunstable1578 straight talk1894 outspeech1919 1578 J. Walsall Serm. preached at Pauls Crosse iii. sig. D.vi^v We cannot, say they, away with his newe doctrine,..all is new plaine Dunstable, the seruice is in the vulgare toung, euerie bodie may vnderstand it. 1650 Man in Moon No. 39. 307 I scorne to shew you as your Pulpit Journey-men doe, but must tell you in plaine down-right Dunstable, That never a Rebell of you all doth believe there is a God. 1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd (ed. 2) II. iv. 87 Their Fore-Fathers..lov'd plain downright Dunstable. 1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. xxxii. 215 That's the plain Dunstable of the matter, Miss! 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet III. iv. 116 If this is not plain speaking, there is no such place as downright Dunstable in being! 1928 V. Woolf Orlando iv. 218 The plain Dunstable of the matter is, that I'm not in the mood for the society of the other sex to-night. 3. a. attributive. Designating a kind of plaited straw, originally made in Dunstable from coarse split straw, and characteristically used for hats and bonnets (see sense A. 4a), as Dunstable braid, Dunstable plait. ΚΠ 1790 J. Woodforde Diary 6 Dec. (1927) III. 231 Mrs. Constance made my Niece a Present of a Dunstable Straw Basket for Work with 2 Covers. 1824 Daily National Jrnl. (Washington, D.C.) 24 Nov. A beautiful Straw Bonnet, of the Dunstable braid, was exhibited by Clarissa Newton. 1848 Lady's Newspaper 8 Apr. 290/3 By a strange caprice of fashion, those of the commonest description are at present the most distingué; we allude to the coarse broad Dunstable plait. 1908 E. Jackson Toys of other Days iv. 57 A milliner's shop shows a fine display of miniature bonnets... Some are of the finest Dunstable straw plait, some of Leghorn, others of crinoline or buckram. 1931 A. C. Train Puritan's Progress viii. 149 On his head he wore a hat of Dunstable braid. 2002 N. Verdon Rural Women Workers in 19th-Century Eng. v. 136 Luton Museum's collection includes the account books of Henry Horn, a Dunstable plait dealer. †b. Straw plaited or braided in the style associated with Dunstable. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1817 Liverpool Mercury 1 Aug. 40/2 (advt.) Patent Dunstable. 1821 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 20 Mar. (advt.) To straw hat manufacturers, &c. John Smith, will sell by wholesale..patent and whole Dunstable. 1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. II. 377 Plait straw is the straw of the wheat..grown on dry chalky lands, such as those about Dunstable..‘Whole Dunstable’, signifies that the plait is formed of seven entire straws, and ‘patent Dunstable’, that it consists of fourteen split straws. 1891 Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 9 May The most fashionable combination in millinery is now a mixture of..fine chip or Dunstable and fancy lace Tuscan borders. 4. a. attributive. Designating a hat or bonnet made from a distinctive kind of plaited straw associated with Dunstable (see sense A. 3a), as Dunstable bonnet, Dunstable hat. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [adjective] > hat > made of specific material > other Leghorn1720 Dunstable1792 Milan1855 shaved1861 1792 Oracle 23 June (advt.) A very large Assortment of Dunstable, Leghorn, Willow, Caledonian, and other Fancy Hats and Bonnets. 1796 E. Hamilton Let. 21 Sept. in J. C. Jeaffreson Lady Hamilton & Nelson (1888) I. xviii. 317 Send me..a Dunstable hat, and some ribbands. 1826 J. Wilson et al. Noctes Ambrosianae xxvii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 94 I..found myself sitting in a pew between two very good-looking middle-aged women, in Dunstable bonnets, streaming with ribbons. 1829 P. Egan Boxiana New Ser. II. 681 Hall..went briskly into the ring, and tossed up his Dunstable straw with an air of confidence. 1903 A. E. Barr Black Shilling vi. 121 On her head was one of those pretty Dunstable hats, for which England has been famous from an unknown date. 2000 D. E. Pilato Retrieval of Legacy ii. 36 The Wethersfield bonnet and the Dunstable bonnet became popular American styles. †b. A Dunstable hat or bonnet. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > made of specific material > straw > types of Dunstable1805 Leghorn1810 skimmer1830 Tuscan hat1830 boating hat1840 mushroom1843 Milan hat1855 toering1855 bergère hat1873 Zulu hat1880 boater1882 boat hat1889 straw yard1900 donkey's breakfast1901 brimmer1902 straw boater1905 balibuntal1913 1805 Aberdeen Jrnl. 27 Feb. (advt.) Dunstables from 2s. to 10s. a1854 E. Grant Mem. Highland Lady (1988) I. v. 92 We had all straw bonnets alike, coarse dunstables lined and trimmed with green. 1916 Illustr. Milliner Feb. 5 m/1 Dunstables $30.00 to $60.00 per dozen. †B. adj. Simple, basic, uncomplicated; spec. straightforward, honest, or direct in one's speech or dealings. Often preceded by plain, (later) downright. Cf. earlier sense A. 1b. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > sincerity, freedom from deceit > [adjective] aefauldOE trueOE true as steela1300 throlya1375 entirec1380 faithfula1382 entirelyc1400 single1519 sincere1533 sincere1539 simple-minded1556 Dunstable?1565 truthful?1567 single-hearted1574 single-minded1577 sound1580 downright1584 unaffected1592 real1597 plain-hearted1601 unartificial1603 free1619 honest1634 fair and square1636 round-dealing1642 wholehearted1657 down flata1663 well-designing1670 heart-whole1684 single-eyed1705 unsanctimoniousa1797 natural1825 bona fide1827 unfallacious1827 jannock1828 forthcoming1835 up and down1836 bonified1840 forthgoing1851 unhypocritical1854 forthright1855 upstanding1863 on the level1872 genuine1890 for real1954 upfront1967 ?1565 A. Hartwell in tr. W. Haddon Sight of Portugall Pearle Ep. Ded. sig. Aii^v Me thynks, beinge both an Orator and a Poet, you shoulde not haue bene ignorante that playne dunstable raysing is the sclenderest shyfte in all Rhetorique. ?1589 T. Nashe Almond for Parrat sig. 19 A good old dunstable doctor here in London. 1608 H. Fitzsimon Catholike Confut. 368 Befor you betake your selfe to new grammarian labours, or dictionarie inuentions, learne to vnderstand a playne metaphorical relation of a mater, that your denials therof, because it is not in playne dunstable tearmes, be not reputed. 1696 P. A. Motteux Love's a Jest v. 60 I an't us'd to make Love, and mayn't talk so much like a Courtier (never the worse man for that) I am downright Dunstable. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VI. xxvii. 161 Your uncle is an odd, but a very honest Dunstable soul. 1817 W. Scott Let. 17 Mar. (1933) IV. 409 Now Morritt who is Downright Dunstable would not have let this sentence slip him. 1884 Young Eng. 1 Oct. 599/2 As Jack used to say in his ‘downright Dunstable’ fashion—‘Jess was anything but fun herself, and she spoilt the fun of everyone else’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.adj.1546
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