单词 | bearing cloth |
释义 | > as lemmasbearing cloth bearing cloth n. now historical a piece of cloth, typically of high quality, used to wrap a baby in at baptism; (also more generally) a piece of cloth or other material used to wrap a young or newborn baby in; cf. bearing sheet n. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > loose clothing > robe or gown > types of > christening robe bearing sheet1513 bearing cloth1553 1553 E. Candish & R. Young in J. Trower Parish of St. Mary-at-hill (1878) 101 A bering clothe for Children wt a crucyfyx. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 341 If a child be lapped in a mantle or bearing-cloth made of an asse skin, it shall not be affrighted at any thing. a1732 T. Boston Serm. & Disc. (1753) I. ii. iii. 248 Creusa in Euripides, daughter of Erichtheus King of Athens, had a bearing cloth of her own weaving for Ion. 1860 Jrnl. Brit. Archæol. Assoc. 16 339 Mr. G. R. Wright exhibited a fine piece of silver lace of butterfly pattern, three inches and a half wide, which till lately formed a portion of the trimming of a baptismal mantle, or bearing-cloth, of blue satin. 2000 Piecework Nov. 40/1 Until the middle of the eighteenth century, infants were baptized while wrapped in an elaborately embroidered ‘bearing cloth’. < as lemmas |
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