单词 | aumoniere |
释义 | aumonieren. Now chiefly historical. A kind of pouch carried at the waist as a purse. Cf. almoner n.1 ΚΠ 1827 La Belle Assemblée Apr. 150/2 The richly-wrought castellane, with its golden key, worn hanging to the girdle, calling back the times of early French history, with a promise that the mirror and the aumonière, its former companions, will shortly be resumed. 1834 J. R. Planché Hist. Brit. Costume 89 Berengaria..is represented with a small pouch called an aulmonière. 1883 D. Goodale in Harper's Mag. July 241/1 The little plush aumônière. 1939 Montana Standard 3 Mar. (Spring Opening section) 7/5 Many of the romantic dresses are completed with amusing ‘aumonieres’ or dangling purse-pockets attached to the waist-belt. 1946 Bull. Museum of Fine Arts 44 14/2 Throughout the middle ages, and even as late as the sixteenth century, the purse or aumonière was worn by both men and women suspended from a belt. 1985 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 16 June x. 6 Evening bags included a black satin aumoniere, from Yves Saint Laurent, that cost $60. 2006 R. Morgan Burning Time viii. 156 The belt of indigo-blue-dyed leather, from which hung the aumoniere—the leather purse ‘containing the bribes’, as Alyce sourly noted. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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