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单词 osnaburg
释义

osnaburgn.adj.

Brit. /ˈɒznəbəːɡ/, U.S. /ˈɑznəˌbərɡ/
Forms:

α. late Middle English osburgh, 1500s osburne, 1500s osburow, 1600s ossenburg, 1700s– osnaburg, 1700s– osnaburgh; North American and U.S. regional 1700s ozenberg, 1700s oznaburgh, 1700s oznarburgh, 1700s– oznaburg, 1800s anznaburgh, 1900s– ausenberg, 1900s– ausenburg, 1900s– orsanberg, 1900s– orsenberg, 1900s– os'enberg; Scottish 1700s ozenburgh, 1700s– osnaburg, 1700s– osnaburgh, 1700s– oznaburgh, 1800s ozanburg.

β. 1500s osenbreg, 1500s ossenbrydge, 1500s ossunbregge, 1500s ostenbrig, 1500s ozenbridg, 1500s ozenbrig, 1500s–1600s ozenbridge, 1600s osenbridge, 1600s osenbrig, 1600s osimbreeke, 1600s ossenbridge, 1600s ozenbrick, 1600s ussembrig, 1700s ossinbrig, 1700s ozembrig, 1700s ozinbrig, 1900s– osnabrück; North American and U.S. regional 1600s osnabrigg, 1600s–1700s 1900s– ozenbrig, 1700s osnabrig, 1700s osnabrug, 1700s osombridge, 1700s ozenbridge, 1700s oznabrig, 1800s osnbrig; Scottish 1700s– osnabrig, 1800s osenbrug.

Also with capital initial.
Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Osnaburg.
Etymology: < Osnaburg, the former English name of a town (German Osnabrück) in north-western Germany, noted for its manufacture of linen.Forms in -bridge (and variants; compare β. forms) represent a literal rendering of German -brück.
Now chiefly U.S.
A. n.
As a mass noun: a kind of coarse linen (and later cotton) cloth originally made at Osnabrück, used esp. for making rough hard-wearing clothing, or for furnishings, sacks, tents, etc. As a count noun (usually in plural, sometimes treated as singular): a quantity of this; (also) an item or items made of such cloth, esp. (formerly) clothing given to servants or slaves.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from flax, hemp, or jute > [noun] > linen > types of > coarse
linsey1435
buckram1436
osnaburg1448
straiken1531
noggen1564
barras1640
Ticklenburgs1696
treillis1706
rough1784
toile de Leon1794
crash1812
Forfars1882
linen crash1895
1448 Plea & Mem. Rolls London Guildhall no. A74.8r (MED) An half of the seid troy weyght ffor ix bales ffustyans callid Osburghs, euery bale conteynyng xlv half pecis ffustyans.
1545 Rates Custome House sig. cj Osenbreges the roule x.l.
1554–5 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) III. 363 ix yeardes of Ossenbrydge for a towell to the hye tabyll, iiijs. vjd.
1694 Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. 2 Cloth, Osenbrigs, Tobacco.
1694–5 in M. Cash Devon Inventories 16th & 17th Cent. (1966) 164 Of broad Cheese Cloath—21 yards of barrows..72 yards of broad Osimbreeke.
1732 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) III. 430 That to each there be given a couple of Shirts, a Jackett and two pair of trowsers of Oznabrigs.
1757 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1889) I. 490 I..beg the favor of you to choose me about 250 yds. osnabrigs.
1771 Information conc. Province N. Carolina When they do not chuse money, their masters give Osnaburgs, negro cloths, caps, hats, handerchiefs, pipes, and knives.
1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 381 In some of the villages of the Carse of Gowrie, the inhabitants manufacture osnaburgs.
1827 O. W. Roberts Narr. Voy. Central Amer. 36 In exchange we gave them ravenduck, osnaburg, checks, blue-baftas and other manufactured goods.
1866 C. Sievwright Sough 94 Eppie, too, keeps an ozanburg aye upon hand.
1917 J. Hergesheimer Three Black Pennys (1918) 38 Tobacco and shoes, ozenbrigs and molasses and rum.
1938 M. K. Rawlings Yearling xi. 110 Beyond the utensils were the dress goods; calico and Osnaburg, denim and shoddy, domestic and homespun.
1949 V. S. Reid New Day i. i. 9 Thirst and hunger walk through our land, four hundred thousand people have no osnaburgs to their backs.
1959 M. D. Potter & B. P. Corbman Fiber to Fabric (ed. 3) ix. 153 When made of waste mixed with low~grade cotton it is known as part-waste osnaburg.
1984 Sears, Roebuck Catal. Spring–Summer 1124 Easy-care fabric of subtly textured cotton osnaburg.
1991 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 78 501 Richard Henderson sold osnaburgs at Boonesborough in 1775.
B. adj. (attributive).
Designating this cloth; (also) made of osnaburg.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from flax, hemp, or jute > [adjective] > linen > types of
throwneOE
sindonc1500
roan1545
Holland1554
lawny1598
osnaburg1681
1681 in Rec. Court of New Castle on Delaware (1904) 493 Twoo Remnants of Osnabriggs Linnen.
1704 Boston News-let. 19 June 2/2 A tall lusty Indian Man.., with a black Hat, brown Ozenbridge Breeches and a Jacket.
1758 in Essex Inst. Historical Coll. (1874) XII. 145 Others very much soaked in their Osombrige Tents.
1774 in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1911) 6 41 John Johnson..had on..a pair of leather breeches and osnabrig trousers.
1813 J. Taylor Arator 137 A regular supply of a winter's coat,..two oznaburg shirts, a good hat and blanket.
1841 Southern Literary Messenger 7 775/2 Our slaves in the South-West are annually supplied with two cotton Oznaburg shirts.
1863 ‘E. Kirke’ My Southern Friends vii. 99 The thin Osnaburg gown.
1949 V. S. Reid New Day i. ii. 14 She puts on me the osnaburg pantaloons which are too short for Zekiel.
1995 J. D. Fudge Cargoes, Embargoes, & Emissaries 30 To England, they brought costly silk, linen, thread and buckram, Osnabrück cloth, [etc.].
1998 J. C. Penney Home Coll. Catal. 45 100% cotton osnaburg fabric for a natural look.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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