| 单词 | ferret-ribboning |
| 释义 | > as lemmasferret-ribboning 2. A stout tape most commonly made of cotton, but also of silk; then known as Italian ferret. green-ferret, figurative of officialism (cf. red tape n.). Also attributive, as ferret-ribbon, ferret-ribboning. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from choice of fibres > [noun] > cotton or silk > tape ferret1649 ferreting1670 ferrateen1821 society > authority > office > [noun] > officialism or bureaucracy red tape1736 bureaucracy1815 bureauism1829 red-tapery1831 red-tapism1834 officiality1841 functionarism1842 officialism1849 red-tapedom1850 red tapeworm1851 tapism1852 green-ferret1853 officialty1853 paperasserie1856 paperchase1856 paper-chasing1876 departmentalism1886 Whitehallism1915 striped trousers1958 1649 Gild Law in E. Mackenzie Descr. & Hist. Acct. Newcastle (1827) II. 666 (note) They shall wear no show strings better than ferret..ribbin. 1671 J. Dryden Evening's Love iv. 70 There's your ferret Ribbaning for garters. 1697 London Gaz. No. 3331/4 Leather Breeches, tied at the Knees with green Ferrit. 1715 London Gaz. No. 5327/2 The working of Galloons, Ribbons, Ferret, &c. by Mills. 1783 W. F. Martyn Geogr. Mag. 2 268 The inhabitants [of Amiens] carry on a manufacture of ferrets. 1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 36 Red wax and green ferret Are fix'd at the foot of the deeds! 1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village II. 195 The bobbin, the ferret, shirt-buttons, shoe-strings? a1839 C. L. H. Papendiek Court & Private Life Time Queen Charlotte (1887) II. xxi. 257 The venetian blinds I had new strung at home with silk ferret. 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House x. 89 Mr. Snagsby has dealt in..red tape, and green ferret. < as lemmas |
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