| 单词 | housewife's cloth |
| 释义 | > as lemmashousewife's cloth housewife's cloth n. now historical any of various types of linen cloth, suitable for ordinary domestic use; cf. housekeeping goods n. at housekeeping n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from flax, hemp, or jute > [noun] > linen > articles made of linenc1330 housewife's cloth1567 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from flax, hemp, or jute > [noun] > linen > types of > for specific purpose lockramc1300 housewife cloth1560 housewife's cloth1567 beaupers1592 household linen1642 French canvas1662 harrateen1711 glass-cloth1851 tableclothing1859 Java canvas1867 Italian1897 1465 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 310 (MED) My mastyr payd to the said John for xx elles of hoswyffes clothe. 1567 in F. G. Emmison Elizabethan Life (1980) (modernized text) V. 7 5 pair of sheets of housewife's cloth and 6 pillowberes agreeable to these sheets. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 349/1 Housewifes Cloth made of Hemp or Flax..Holland, Tiffany, Gawse. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. House-wife's Cloth, is a middle Sort of Linnen Cloth between fine and coarse, for Family Uses. 1899 C. Whibley tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars I. p. xxviii He slept always on a low bed, and wore no apparel that was not of housewife's cloth, spun at home by the women of his family. 1939 Ld. Beveridge et al. Prices & Wages in Eng. 53 Entries of housewife's cloth for the same purpose at 2s. an ell in 1628. < as lemmas |
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