| 单词 | half-hose | 
| 释义 | > as lemmashalf-hose   half-hose  n. (originally) †short breeches (obsolete); (subsequently) short stockings or socks. Π 1580    G. Harvey in  E. Spenser  & G. Harvey Three Proper & Wittie Lett. 36  				Largebelled Kodpeasd Dublet, vnkodpeased halfe hose. 1674    S. Speed Fragmenta Carceris sig. F2  				Some came with Shooes, that fear'd to touch the ground; Some with half-hose, to shew their shins were sound. 1851    Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. III. 588  				Lambs-wool and Cashmere hose and half-hose. 1927    T. Woodhouse Artificial Silk: Manuf. & Uses 83  				Enormous lengths were machine-knitted into hose and half-hose. 2013    Daily Tel. 		(Nexis)	 21 Sept. (Weekend section) 11  				A fine example of the gentlemen's half-hose in subdued black, earth or grey. half-hose   half-hose  n. ΚΠ 1851    Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. III. 588  				Lambs-wool and Cashmere hose and half-hose. half-hose   half-hose  n. (see hose n. 1a(c)). half-hose  (c) collective plural hose. In modern use: stockings reaching to the knee.  half-hose: short stockings or socks.From hose (as if = hoes), a false singular ho, stocking, is found in Scottish. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and feet > 			[noun]		 > stocking hose1297 stock1456 netherstock1535 shanka1547 undersock1556 nether-stocking1581 stocking1583 shinner1585 stockard1597 vamper1699 1297    R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 8013  				Is chanberlein him broȝte..Amorewe uor to werie a peire hosen [v.rr. hoses, hose] of say. c1400    Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) viii. 31  				Þai putte off þaire hose and þaire schone. 1538    Aberdeen Reg. V. 16 (Jam.)  				To pay him x sh. & the wtter part of a pair of hoyss. 1553    T. Wilson Arte Rhetorique 		(1567)	 82 b  				Some..go with their hose out at heles. 1579    in  T. Thomson Coll. Inventories Royal Wardrobe 		(1815)	 282  				Ten howis sewit with reid silk, grene silk and blak silk. a1616    W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona 		(1623)	  ii. i. 72  				Hee beeing in loue, could not see to garter his hose .       View more context for this quotation 1660    Acts Council Rutherglen in  D. Ure Hist. Rutherglen 		(1793)	 65  				A paire of shooes and hoise. 1718    A. Ramsay Christ's-kirk on Green  ii. 21  				Her left Leg Ho was flung. 1776–81    E. Gibbon Decline & Fall lxv. (R.)  				The legs and feet were clothed in long hose and open sandals. 1807    J. Hogg Mountain Bard 193  				His shoon was four pound weight a-piece; On ilka leg a ho had he. 1851    Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. III. 588  				Merino hose, half-hose, and socks. 1892    Labour Commission Gloss. (at cited word)  				Wrought-hose, a very elastic class of hosiery made wholly upon a hand-machine. < as lemmas  | 
	
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