| 单词 | baby-clouts |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbaby-clouts baby-clouts n. now regional (a) baby clothes; (b) rags of different colours given to children to dress dolls; (hence) a rag doll (cf. sense A. 3). ΚΠ ?1576 Common Condicions sig. Fv Ile giue thee a peny to by thy baby clouts. 1640 R. Brathwait Two Lancs. Lovers xv. 113 And drawing neare the bed, to put her Daughters armes and higher part of her body too within sheets: perceiving it not to be her Daughter: but a Baby-clouts only to delude her. 1725 H. Carey Namby-Pamby (single sheet) Now the venal Poet sings Baby Clouts and Baby Things, Baby Dolls, and Baby Houses. 1846 W. Cross Disruption xxii. 242 My whole frame became rigid, my legs and arms were extended, and I was covered all over with half-wet baby clouts. 1899 B. W. Green Word-bk. Virginia Folk-speech 47 Baby-clouts... Baby-clothes. Pieces of stuff of different colours given to children to dress their dolls with. 1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 11/1 Baby-clouts, baby's nappies; in general baby clothes. < as lemmas |
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