单词 | footmantle |
释义 | footmantlen. 1. An overgarment worn by women to protect clothing, esp. when riding a horse. Now rare (historical in later use). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > that covers or protects other clothing > other footmantlec1405 cover-slut1639 Johnny1920 smock1938 c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 474 A foot mantel aboute hir hypes large. 1842 Metrop. Mag. 35 48 Her footmantle..was of fine scarlet cloth. 1870 Manch. Weekly Times 19 Nov. The drawings are necessary for the understanding of parts of the dresses described by Chaucer as the Wife of Bath's foot-mantle round her hips, &c. 1898 A. M. Earle Home Life in Colonial Days 295 When riding, women in the colonies wore..a safeguard, a long over-petticoat to protect the gown from mud and rain. This was sometimes called a foot-mantle. 1927 Aberdeen Press & Jrnl. 12 Sept. 3/7 The footcloth or footmantle, which was tucked round the feet after the lady had mounted. 2000 Chaucer Rev. 34 390 A foot-mantle would have been particularly necessary for a woman..wearing skirts while riding astride. 2. A large, richly decorated cloth laid over the back of a horse; = foot-cloth n. 2. Now chiefly historical and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > trappings, housing, or caparison steed shrouda1300 coverturec1300 trap13.. horse-house1316 attiringa1375 trapping1398 trappera1400 saddlecloth1415 house1463 foot-cloth1480 summock1506 reparelling1513 base1548 furniture1553 coperture1555 housing-cloth1569 caparison1602 footmantlec1610 bear gear1613 horse-furniture1613 bearing gear1616 housing1698 pad-cloth1795 rumbler1849 1488 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 147 Item, for thre elne of veluus til a fut mantil, price of the elne iij li. c1610 J. Melville Mem. Own Life (1735) 91 With them came a Servant of Lord Robert's with a Horse and Foot-mantle of velvet..for me to ride upon. 1685 London Gaz. No. 2031/1 Six Heralds in Coats with Foot-Mantles, bearheaded, two and two. 1720 in tr. G. Wishart Compl. Hist. Wars Scotl. App. p. vi An Horse in State, with a rich Footmantle, two Lacquies in rich Livery, and his Parliament Badges. 1792 Spalding's Hist. Troubles Scotl. (new ed.) I. 21 The provost went to his horse in good order, having a rich saddle with a black velvet foot mantle. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iii*, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 108 Horse-graith and harnessing, forby broidered robes and foot-mantles, that wad hae stude by their lane wi' gold brocade. 1921 Times 18 May 9/6 The purchase of foot mantles to be worn in the ceremonial riding of the Parliament from Holyrood Palace to the Parliament House. 1997 R. Maxwell Secret Diary Anne Boleyn 2 She turned and continued..toward her fine chestnut stallion trapped in a footmantle laced with gold. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1405 |
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