| 单词 | dunster cloth |
| 释义 | > as lemmasDunster cloth attributive. Designating a type of woollen cloth manufactured in the village of Dunster in Somerset, as Dunster cloth, Dunster cotton. ΚΠ 1601 Act 43 Elizabeth I c. 10 §1 in Statutes of Realm (1963) IV. ii. 975 Dunster Cotton hereafter shalbe by this presente Acte intended and taken to be of like weighte lengthe and breadth as Taunton and Bridgewater Clothe. 1846 I. T. Hewlett Dunster Castle I. ix. 141 I, who am parcel-dry, and somewhat cheered by a jack of ale, slightly spiced, will borrow a wrapper of good Dunster broad-cloth from mine host. 1975 W. T. MacCaffrey Exeter, 1549–1640 167 [Devon dozens] were rivaled by other West Country cloths, bays, Dunster cloth, perpetuanoes, and serge. 2001 L. Purdom Southern Eng. 277/1 Built for the sale of Dunster cloth, the Yarn Market, High Street, is an eight-sided market hall dating from the seventeenth century. < as lemmas |
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