单词 | nettle-cloth |
释义 | nettle-clothn.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] > made from nettles nettle-cloth1539 Scotch cloth1631 nettle stalk1684 1539 Will of Elyn Carleton (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/28) f. 23v My best rayle of Nettyll cloth. 1588 T. Hickock tr. C. Federici Voy. & Trauaile f. 22 Cloth of hearbes, which is a kinde of Silke which groweth amongst the woods without any labour of man. margin This cloth we call Nettle cloth. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes A kinde of cloth we call calico or nettle cloth, or the rootes to make it. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §614 Nettles, (whereof they make Nettle-Cloth). 2. spec. A coarse cotton cloth specially finished so as to imitate leather (see quot. 1937). Now rare or historical. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > cotton > [noun] > calico Calico-cloth1540 Calicut-cloth1540 calico1652 twine cloth1815 nettle-cloth1858 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > cotton > [noun] > in imitation of other fabric or material cambric1530 nettle-cloth1858 Victoria crape1877 leatheroid1882 flannelette1887 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products 259/1 Nettle-cloth, a new German material, consisting of a very thick tissued cotton, which is japanned and prepared as a substitute for leather, particularly for the peaks of caps, waistbelts, &c. 1884 Chambers's Jrnl. 8 Mar. 147/1 At Dresden, Herr F. C. Seidel has recently established a manufactory for nettle-cloth. 1919 Chambers's Jrnl. May 298/2 What used to be called ‘nettle-cloth’ is again brought on the market. 1937 Dict. Textile Terms in Textile Mercury & Argus 22 Oct. 417 Nettle cloth, A heavy cotton fabric specially finished in a lacquer or enamel to imitate leather; used for waist-belts, etc. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1539 |
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