单词 | manty-maker |
释义 | manty-makern. Now chiefly Scottish, English regional (northern), and Irish English (northern). A dressmaker. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > dressmaking > [noun] > dressmaker mantle-maker1552 tire-woman1615 mantua-maker1694 manteau-maker1699 manty-maker1771 sack-maker1780 dressmaker1793 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 84 She has gi'en me her yallow trollopea; which Mrs. Drab, the manty-maker, says will look very well when it is scowred and smoaked with silfur. 1787 W. Taylor Scots Poems 55 Now she is grown a Manty-maker. 1858 J. Rayson Poems 45 She wad wi' Keate to Carel gang, And be a manty-mecker. 1891 H. Johnston Kilmallie I. xviii She's a sewer, I think—a manty-maker, or something like that, I would suppose, from the needle-marks on her fingers. 1892 Jrnl. Cork Hist. & Archaeol. Soc. 69/2 The dandy manty-maker. a1901 P. Landreth Joseph Spindle (1911) ii. 27 My faither..said tylers werena' men, but mantymakers wi' beards. 1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 185/2 Manty maãker/Manty mekker, dress-maker, seamstress. 1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 216/2 Mantymaker, a dressmaker. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1771 |
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