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单词 fools coat
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fool's coatn.

Brit. /ˈfuːlz kəʊt/, U.S. /ˈfulz ˌkoʊt/
Forms:

α. 1500s–1600s fooles coat, 1500s–1600s fooles coate, 1600s–1700s fools coat, 1600s– fool's coat.

β. 1600s fool coat.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: fool n.1, coat n.
Etymology: In α. forms < the genitive of fool n.1 + coat n. In β. forms < fool n.1 + coat n.
1.
a. A multicoloured costume worn by a jester; = motley n. 3a. Also figurative. Obsolete.
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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.
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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.
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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.
3. The European goldfinch, Carduelis carduelis. Obsolete and rare.
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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).
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