| 单词 | a pair of tweezes |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa pair (= set) of tweezes A case of small instruments, an etui; also plural instruments kept or carried about in a small case. Occasionally a pair (= set) of tweezes. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > [noun] > set of > in small case tweeze1622 twee1749 society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > case or container > [noun] > for small objects or instruments etui1611 tweeze1622 puppeta1625 tweezer1654 tweezer-case1686 twee1690 bubble-boy1727 nécessaire1800 poppeta1903 caddy1976 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Pennarol de Chirurgien, a Chirurgians Case or Ettuy; the box wherein he carries his Instruments.] 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue (1623) ii. 130 Whether shee would buy a very fine paire of twizes which we..had cut from another gentlewomans girdle..having ground and whet them..and fitted them with a case. a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Spanish Gipsie (1653) ii. sig. C2v Take any thing.., Purses, Knives, Handkerchers, Rosaries, Tweezes, any toy. 1632 R. Sherwood Dict. in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.) (at Tweese) A Surgeons tweese (or box of instruments). 1638 J. Ford Fancies i. 7 I will..betallow thy tweezes. 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. xvi. 32 I have sent you..the French Bever and Tweeses you writ for. 1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. xv. sig. Ff8v Drawing a little Penknife out of a pair of Twises I then chanc'd to have about me. 1672 Descr. Lake Geneva in E. Halley Miscellanea Curiosa (1708) III. 409 There are found..Knives, and Needles as thick as Bodkins of tweeses. 1681 W. Robertson Phraseologia generalis (1693) 206 A barber's tweese, or case of instruments. < as lemmas |
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