单词 | lacer |
释义 | lacern. 1. Often in plural. A thread, cord, thong, etc., used to lace up something (typically an item of clothing or footwear). Also with modifying word. Now chiefly Scottish.The exact sense of quot. 1813 is unclear. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > fastenings > lace, cord, or string lacea1382 pointc1390 sinka1425 lacingc1440 pointing ribbon1543 pointing silk1571 string1674 lacer1813 1813 Proc. Old Bailey 2 June 350/2 I searched the room the prisoners lodged in; I found a pair of lacers. 1840 Price & Lee's New Haven City Directory 117 Silk and Cotton Boot Lacers, Silk and Cotton Corset Lacers. 1887 Ladies' Home Jrnl. Apr. 14/2 Sleeve trimming of small puffings held in place by dress lacers. 1909 Dry Goods Economist 22 May 7 The discontinuance by corset manufacturers of the custom of supplying lacers with each corset has done much to build up retail sales of these essentials. 1921 Amer. Legion Weekly 25 Nov. 21/3 (advt.) $12 Footballs now $5.00... Each one complete with..rawhide lacer and lacing needle. 1947 E. Welty Golden Apples (1956) 43 Her red silk lacers were actually ladies' shoestrings dipped in pokeberry juice. 1951 Banffshire Adv. 9 Aug. in Sc. National Dict. (Electronic text) at Lacer I wis pittin' a new lacer in ma beet. 2021 C. Aitchison in Lallans 98 11 Tam was sat oan the bed, tyin his lacers. 2. A person who (habitually) wears a corset in order to compress the waist. Frequently with modifying word indicating the manner or degree of lacing, chiefly (and now only) in tight-lacer n. at tight-lacing n. Derivatives.See also strait-lacer n. at strait-lace v. Derivatives. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [noun] > wearing underwear > one who lacer1822 tight-lacer1859 1822 Recreative Rev. 2 452 This tapering of the waist did not last long, and for a very good reason, the lacers' health tapered away so fast as to send them prematurely to the grave. 1841 Western Temperance Jrnl. (Cincinnati) 1 Mar. 40/2 The writer, though always a moderate lacer, has herself experienced some of the injuries here spoken of. 1843 Amer. Phrenol. Jrnl. Feb. 61 In view of all these multiplied and aggravated evils consequent upon tight-lacing, evils to the lacer, evils to posterity, I make an appeal. 1911 Southern Practitioner Dec. 615 The tightest lacers deny it most vehemently, it is an old sore with them. 2012 K. Seleshanko Bound & Determined p. vi/1 What was once an underground movement of closet tight-lacers has grown into a trend that's made corset-making a profitable business again. ΚΠ 1832 Day (Glasgow) 28 Feb. 198/1 My breakfast, consisting of tea, eggs and ham,..and a thimbleful of brandy in the last cup, by way of a lacer. 1849 W. G. Simms Father Abbot xii. 155 A bowl of coffee and a cracker is the initial appetizer, with possibly a tass of brandy..as a lacer. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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