| 单词 | house-loom |
| 释义 | > as lemmashouse-loom house-loom n. [in sense (a) after heirloom n.] †(a) = heirloom n.; also figurative (obsolete) (archaic in later use); (b) (later) a weaver's loom suitable for use in the home (now historical). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > heritable property > heirloom loom1424 heirloom1472 house-looma1685 family jewels1735 family portrait1814 a1685 M. Evelyn Mundus Muliebris (1690) Pref. sig. A3 Her prudent Mother, whose Nuptial Kirtle, Gown and Petticoat..were at last bequeathed with a Purse of old Gold..as an House-Loom to her Grand-Daughter. 1697 J. Evelyn Numismata iii. 68 They..fixt them as House-Looms to the Inheritance. 1807 S. T. Coleridge Marginalia (1984) II. 98 He has been robbed..of the very house-loom of his human nature. 1821 Niles' Weekly Reg. 23 June 257/1 I began..to clothe myself and my family in homespun, by the house-loom. 1902 C. Wheeler How to make Rugs 109 The elaborate blue-and-white spreads our grandmothers wove upon the cumbrous house-loom of that period. 2009 T. Gautreaux Missing 16 Their mother made their clothes on a house loom. < as lemmas |
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