单词 | medrinaque |
释义 | medrinaquen. Now rare. Perhaps Obsolete. Fibre made from the sago palm and other trees of the Philippines; cloth made from this fibre. 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 other vegetable fibres > [noun] > other bark-clothc1440 sedge-rug1592 grass cloth1638 medrinaque1704 Russia matting1773 gnatoo1817 tapa1823 vegetable flannel1840 rabanna1863 kapa1909 1704 tr. G. F. Gemelli Careri Voy. round World i. x, in A. Churchill & J. Churchill Coll. Voy. IV. 442/2 [The Philippine islanders make] of the Thread of the Coco-Tree, a sort of Cloth they call Madrenaque, with the warp of Cotton. 1851 R. MacMicking Recoll. Manilla & Philippines 217 In Luzon..the natives make a species of cloth from the plantain-tree, known by the names of Medrinaque and Guiara cloths. 1851 R. MacMicking Recoll. Manilla & Philippines 217 The bulk of all the Medrinaque exported goes to the United States. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 728 Medrinaque, a coarse fibre from the Philippines, obtained from the Sago palm, and used chiefly for stiffening dress linings, &c. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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