单词 | perpetuana |
释义 | perpetuanan. A durable woollen fabric widely made and used in England during the 17th and 18th centuries. Now historical.figurative in quot. 1601. 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 wool > [noun] > stout or durable > perpetuana perpetuana1601 perpet1704 perpetuant1754 1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love iii. ii. sig. F Our Gentlemen Vshers; that will suffer a piece of Serge, or Perpetuana, to come into the Presence. View more context for this quotation 1602 Exchequer Deposition (P.R.O.: E 134/44 & 45 Eliz I/Mich) 1 Oliotts..pometts, plumetts perpetuanas perpicuanas rashes, rugges. 1685 J. Dunton Lett. from New Eng. (1867) 14 The Cloathes of the Israelites..in the Wildernesse, never waxed old, as if made of Perpetuano indeed. 1714 tr. French Bk. of Rates 403 The Stuffs called Bays, Perpetuana's, &c. of the Manufacture, which are sent to Italy. 1751 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer at Sudbury Drives a good trade in perpetuana's, says, serges, &c. 1846 J. S. Burn Hist. Protestant Refugees 5 The Flemings taught the manufacturing of our Wool into Broadcloth, Rashes, Flannel and Perpetuanas. 1954 W. G. Hoskins Devon vii. 127 Soon after 1600 another valuable branch of the new draperies had appeared in Devon—the manufacture of serges or perpetuanos. 1992 Jrnl. Afr. Hist. 33 396 The English factory at Offra, finding that its supplies of perpetuanas (serge cloth)..were ‘dead goods’..got rid of them by offering them more cheaply. Compounds C1. General attributive. Now rare. ΚΠ 1607 J. Marston What you Will i. ii Hee's in his old perpetuana sute. 1632–3 in G. R. Batho Househ. Papers H. Percy (1962) 113 One bed of mingled colour perpetuanie gray vizt. five curtaines, headcloth, double vallence, fower sleeves, one counterpoint. 1667 in H. C. F. Lansberry Sevenoaks Wills & Inventories (1988) 58 Item six greene purpetuany low chaires with covers..and a sett of curtaines of the same. 1972 Econ. Hist. Rev. 25 572 (table) Serge and perpetuana serge. C2. ΚΠ 1606 T. Dekker Seuen Deadly Sinnes London iii. sig. D3 The sober Perpetuana suited Puritane. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1601 |
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