α. 1500s–1600s fooles coat, 1500s–1600s fooles coate, 1600s–1700s fools coat, 1600s– fool's coat.
β. 1600s fool coat.
单词 | fools coat |
释义 | fool's coatn.α. 1500s–1600s fooles coat, 1500s–1600s fooles coate, 1600s–1700s fools coat, 1600s– fool's coat. β. 1600s fool coat. a. A multicoloured costume worn by a jester; = motley n. 3a. Also figurative. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > types of > worn by specific people fool's coat1566 blue coat1576 fisher's coat1611 matinee jacket1882 matinee coat1899 laboratory coatc1936 1566 T. Harding Reioindre to M. Iewels Replie f. 251v I perceiue our M. Iohn of Sarisbarie would faine play Dicke Scorner, if he had a mery parte, for it semeth he hath on him a fooles cote already. 1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor iii. i. sig. Hiiiv Of as many Colours, as e're you saw any fooles coat in your life. View more context for this quotation 1662 M. W. Marriage Broaker ii. ii. 31 Dances he on the rope, or tumbles, weares He a fool's coat to make his mistress merrie? 1699 H. Chandler Effort against Biggotry 17 Whether Conformists or Non-Conformists, Church-men or Dissenters, Presbyterian or Independent, or whatever Fool's Coat of Distinction their uncharitable envious Neighbours put upon them. 1757 Con-Test 8 Jan. 46 A masquerade habit made up, like a fool's coat, of the motley patches of incoherent materials. b. In extended use: a garment or covering consisting of multiple colours. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1712 J. Warder True Amazons 57 They [sc. wasps] are both Older and Bolder, and will venture into the Hive, to Rob and Steal; but her Fools Coat, and Hoarse Voice, doth soon discover her. 1847 Morning Chron. 20 May 7/2 I have known..improper persons appointed through petticoat interest, whilst the permission to wear the fool's coat of deputy lieutenants is a petty source of jealousy and intrigue. 2. More fully fool's coat tulip. A striped variety of cultivated tulip (genus Tulipa). Now rare and chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > lily and allied flowers > tulip lily narcissus1578 tulip1578 Turk's cap1597 breeder1660 fool's coat1669 morilliona1678 edger1688 eger1706 chequered tulip1759 parrot tulip?1786 verport1798 Rembrandt1829 bybloemen1843 wild tulip1861 Darwin tulip1889 1669 Psittacorum Regio 117 There are no Flowers but blasted Panseys, weeping Daffadills, and worm-eaten fool-coats. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew A Fool's-Coat, a Tulip so called, striped with Red and Yellow. 1994 Newsletter (Garden Hist. Soc.) No. 42 24 Thomas Daunt's plantings included many varieties of pinks, Catherine peach, fool's coat tulips, a dutch herb and a holly tree. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Fringillidae (finch) > [noun] > subfamily Carduelinae > genus Carduelis > carduelis carduelis (goldfinch) goldfincheOE goldspinka1522 carduel?1530 thistle-finch1589 thistlewarp1598 fool's coata1682 grey pate1728 tailor-warbler1783 redcap1785 sheriff's man1796 goldie?1800 King Harry1824 sweet-william1848 tailor1848 thistle-bird1872 thistle-feeder1904 a1682 Sir T. Browne in Notes & Lett. Nat. Hist. Norfolk (1902) 322. A kind of Anthus Goldfinch or fooles coat commonly calld a drawe water. finely marked with red & yellowe & a white bill. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1566 |
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