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单词 lily-pot
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lily-potn.

Brit. /ˈlɪlɪpɒt/, U.S. /ˈlɪliˌpɑt/
1. A flowerpot with a lily growing in it; a representation of this, commonly occurring as a symbolic accessory in pictures of the Annunciation, and hence frequent as a religious emblem.
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lily-pot1540
1540 Invent. Ch. Goods in Gentleman's Mag. Libr., Ecclesiology 157 A single vestment of white damask imbroidrede with lily pots.
1578–9 New Year's Gifts in J. Nichols Progresses Queen Elizabeth (1823) II. 251 A lylly pot of agathe, a lylly flower going owte of it garnesshed with roses of rubyes.
1898 Archaeol. Jrnl. 55 172 On the brass of Bishop Andreas at Posen, dated 1479,..the lily-pot forms the central upright band of the episcopal mitre.
2.
a. An ornamental vase imitating the ‘lily-pot’ of sacred art; in the early 17th cent. apparently spec. a tobacco-jar.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > vase > [noun] > specific types
hanse-pot1561
lily-pot1612
rolwagen1701
campana1802
potiche1829
kelebe1858
Long Eliza1869
rouleau1873
wall-pocket1880
monota1887
wall vase1889
mei ping1915
baluster vase1933
pedestal vase1960
Medici vase1974
1612 B. Jonson Alchemist i. iii He keepes it [Tobacco] in fine Lilly-pots, that open'd, Smell like conserue of Roses, or French Beanes.
a1640 J. Fletcher et al. Queene of Corinth ii. iv, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Aaaaaa4v/1 Vint. Look into the Lilly-pot.
a1652 R. Brome Weeding of Covent-Garden ii. ii. 34 in Five New Playes (1659) Vint. Y'are welcome, Gentlemen, take up the lillie-pot.
b. Heraldry. (See quot. 1780: the use seems incorrect.)
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1780 J. Edmondson Compl. Body Heraldry II. (Gloss.) Lily-Pot, see Covered Cup.
3. A size of writing paper distinguished by the ‘lily-pot’ as a water-mark. Obsolete.
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society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > paper > [noun] > paper of specific size
paper royal1497
paper rial1501
sheet1510
demy1546
imperial1572
pot1579
lily-pot1593
grape1611
cap1620
crown paper1620
post1648
foolscap1660
bastard1711
copy1712
crown1712
Kentish cap1766
vessel of paper1790
antiquarian1815
quartern1819
quatrain1819
Albert note1846
cap-paper1854
sermon paper1855
Albert1859
columbier1875
Albert notepaper1881
cuatro1904
duchess1923
half-imperial-
1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 138 Stationers..finde more gaine in the lillypot blanke, then in the lillypot Euphued.
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