单词 | kerchief of pleasance |
释义 | > as lemmaskerchief of pleasance A fine gauzelike fabric. Frequently in kerchief of pleasance and variants.In literary texts very often used with a play on pleasance n.1: see, e.g., quots. 1509, 1594. The allusion also occurs in quots. 1440 and c1550, as a kerchief of pleasance was often given to a knight as a sign of favour. 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 > types of > fine > lawn > types of pleasance1426 lumberdyne1548 cobweb lawn1603 French lawn1629 quintain1674 lawna1732 grass lawn1843 Indiana1927 1426 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Var. Coll. (1914) VII. 332 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 6722) XXVI. 1 ij. plyces de plesaunce. 1440 R. Repps in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 22 A knyght out of Spayne wyth a kerchieff of plesaunce j-wrapped aboute hys arme. c1450 C. d'Orleans Poems (1941) 160 (MED) About hir wast a kercher of plesaunce. 1473 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 72 Item vj elne of plesance, price elne iiij s. 1503 in D. Laing Reg. Domus de Soltre (1861) 158 For iiij elne plesance. 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1928) 5429 Though be cladde with clothes of pleasaunce Very erthe and also wormes fode Whan erthe to erthe shall to tourne the blode. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. vii Two ladyes..in kyrtels of Crymosyne..and ouer their garmentes were vochettes of pleasantes,..their heades rouled in pleasauntes and typpets lyke the Egipcians, enbroudered with golde. Their faces, neckes, armes & handes, couered in fyne pleasaunce blacke: Some call it Lumberdynes, which is marueylous thine, so that thesame ladies semed to be nygrost [sic] or blacke Mores. c1550 Clariodus (1830) i. 891 Unto hir..present..This courche of plesance saying.., Scho wan it at the tornament in Spaine. 1594 C. Marlowe & T. Nashe Dido i. i Whenas I..held the cloth of pleasance whiles you drank. 1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iii. ii. 125 (note) Pleasaunce was a fine thin species of gauze, which was striped with gold. < as lemmas |
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