单词 | nécessaire |
释义 | nécessairen. A small case, sometimes ornamental, for personal articles such as pencils, scissors, tweezers, cosmetics, etc. ΘΚΠ 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 1800 E. Hervey Mourtray Family III. ix. 177 A chance of his travelling necessaire, and all the apparatus of his toilet, being burned. 1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xxviii. 266 Gousset empty, tiroirs empty, nécessaire parted for Strasbourg! 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda I. i. ii. 29 Gwendolen..thrust necklace, cambric..and all into her nécessaire. 1896 Harper's Mag. Nov. (Advt. section) 53 Silver Necessaire Set, complete, $6.50, including Ribbon. 1960 Times 16 Feb. 20/7 An old English gold and agate necessaire. 1967 V. Nabokov Speak, Memory (rev. ed.) xiii. 253 The handful of jewels which Natasha, a farsighted old chambermaid,..had swept off a dresser into a nécessaire. 1973 Times 11 Dec. 18/5 A George III gold and enamel nécessaire attributed to James Cox. 1989 Antiques Trade Gaz. 4 Mar. 50/2 (advt.) A small collection of objects of vertu including snuff boxes, etuis, necessaires, etc. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1800 |
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