单词 | pen-case |
释义 | pen-casen. A case or container for a pen or pens. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > case or container > [noun] casea1382 custody1483 clausure1564 pen-case1577 forel1578 form1594 cap-case1597 cassole1599 scissor case1602 out-case1651 carrying case1867 carry case1897 society > communication > writing > writing materials > other writing equipment > [noun] > pencil-case penner1393 scriptor1474 pencil case1552 pen-case1577 pencil box1856 1577 in F. G. Emmison Essex Wills (1994) (modernized text) IX. 29 A purse, a pencase, a pair of shoes. 1599 J. Minsheu Percyvall's Dict. Spanish & Eng. A penner or pencase, vide Caxa de escrivanias. 1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike 110 Exhalations,..the daily matter of Windes, Mists, Comets, [etc.]..have no pen-case or receptacle in nature [L. cum pennarium in natura non habeant], nor matter sufficient for so great daily things. 1788 J. O'Keeffe Farmer i. i. 3 The Colonel from being so much abroad hasn't seen him since the hight of a Pen Case. a1805 A. Carlyle Autobiogr. (1860) iii. 96 He made me a present of a pen-case of his own turning. 1885 R. F. Burton tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm. I. xiii. 132 I took the pen-case and, drawing forth a reed, wrote on the board. 1901 R. Kipling Kim i. 6 At his belt hung a long open-work iron pencase. 1988 Financial Times (Nexis) 17 May i. 26 A loss-making packaging subsidiary..now provides Parker with pen cases 25 per cent more cheaply. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1577 |
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