| 单词 | medley cloth |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmedley cloth medley cloth n. now rare a type of cloth woven with wools of different colours or shades mixed in the thread (cf. sense A. 2). 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 wool > [noun] > of specific colour > multicoloured medley1345 medley cloth1558 1558 in E. Roberts & K. Parker Southampton Probate Inventories, 1447–1575 (1992) I. 93 iij elles canvas & medell clothe, ij s vd. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Wilts. 158 Such a Medly-Cloth, is the Tale-story of this Clothier. 1712 London Gaz. No. 5008/2 The Woollen Manufacture of Mixt or Medley Broad Cloath. 1748 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 4) II. 24 These fine Spanish Medley-cloths are the mix'd colour'd Cloths, which all the Persons of Fashion in England wear. 1837 W. Youatt Sheep vi. 222 What are now called medley-cloths, different coloured wools being mixed together in the thread... These..were first made in Gloucestershire. < as lemmas |
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