| 单词 | pin poppet |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspin poppet pin poppet n. now historical a cylindrical case for pins. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [noun] > sewing > equipment for > pin > pin-case pincase1480 tabouret1656 pin poppet1778 1778 J. Sympson in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Dramatick Wks. II. 318 (note) The fashionable pin-cases in our Authors' days, were made in the shape of little puppets, or poppets; and tho' that custom is discontinued, we still retain the word pin poppets to this very day in the North of England. 1866 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 642 Driven into the ‘pin-poppet’, the old name by which these curious cases were best known. 1963 Times 9 Mar. 11/5 Early pins, hammered and filed in hand-wrought iron, were so liable to rust that they were kept in air-tight pin-poppets of metal or wood lest they stain milady's wimple. 1989 Miller's Collectables Price Guide 1989–90 340/1–3 A Georgian fruitwood pin poppet, 1¾in. (2 cm) long. < as lemmas |
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