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单词 perpetuana
释义

perpetuanan.

Brit. /pəˌpɛtʃʊˈɑːnə/, /pəˌpɛtjʊˈɑːnə/, U.S. /pərˌpɛtʃəˈwɑnə/
Forms: 1600s parpetuana, 1600s perpetuanie, 1600s perpetuanno, 1600s perpetuno, 1600s purpetuany, 1600s– perpetuana, 1600s– perpetuano, 1700s perpetuane, 1700s perpetuanee. Also (in early modern English) represented by the abbreviation ppetuna
Origin: Apparently formed within English, by derivation. Etymon: perpetual adj.
Etymology: Apparently < perpetual adj., with an arbitrary ending (compare durance n. 3, everlasting n. 3, lasting n.5, etc.). Compare French perpétuane thick, durable cloth made in Portugal and England (1694; compare also perpétuelle thick cloth which lasts a long time (1760)), Spanish perpetuán thick, durable woollen cloth (1737), Portuguese perpetuana (17th cent.), perhaps all ultimately < the English word. Compare perpet n.
A durable woollen fabric widely made and used in England during the 17th and 18th centuries. Now historical.figurative in quot. 1601.
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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 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.
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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.
perpetuana-suited adj. Obsolete
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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).
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