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单词 plunket
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Plunketn.2

Brit. /ˈplʌŋkɪt/, U.S. /ˈpləŋkət/, New Zealand English /ˈplʌŋkət/
Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Plunket.
Etymology: < the name of Victoria Alexandrina, Lady Plunket (1873–1938), wife of Sir William Lee Plunket (1864–1920), 5th Baron Plunket and Governor-General of New Zealand 1904–10, and first patroness of the society.
New Zealand.
I. attributive.
1. Of or relating to the Plunket Society (see sense 2), or the system of childcare advocated by it; esp. designating a person trained in or following this system, or a child reared according to its methods. Cf. Karitane n.
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the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [adjective] > type of clinic
Plunket1909
well-baby1914
well-man1966
the world > people > person > baby or infant > [noun] > baby reared by specific method
bottle baby1869
Plunket1909
society > education > upbringing > [noun] > one who brings up > nurse
nouricec1225
nursea1325
rockera1325
nourish1340
nursha1382
nursery nurse1494
nutrice1529
nurse-girl1596
dry-nursea1616
nursey1760
bonne1771
ayah1782
nanny1785
momma1803
nursery girla1812
mammy1837
nanac1844
day nurse1855
caretaker1858
nursekin1862
Norland1894
nounou1894
nurselet1894
Plunket1909
metapelet1950
1909 Ann. Rep. Soc. for Promotion of Health of Women & Children No. 1. 9 The doctor was pleased to have the assistance of the Plunket nurse, and at once consented to the children being fed on humanised milk.
1913 N.Z. Observer 13 Sept. 5Plunket Saturday’ for the kiddies naturally reminds one of the Plunket kiddies and their pa and ma.
1939 H. Grieve Sketches from Maoriland viii. 56 The pride of the first Plunket mother when she discovered that her baby, properly fed, slept all night.
1945 R. M. Burdon N.Z. Notables II. ii. 41 By 1913..twenty-seven trained Plunket nurses were working from their appointed centres.
1958 N.Z. News 11 Mar. 3/1 In 1912, the Government gave him [sc. Truby King] six months' leave of absence to preach the movement throughout the country, and the number of ‘Plunket’ nurses rapidly multiplied.
1988 J. Frame Carpathians xiv. 83 We didn't want the Plunket Rooms here, with nurses coming to tell us what to do with our babies.
2003 Timaru (N.Z.) Herald (Nexis) 24 Dec. 10 She became a registered nurse in 1947, then a maternity nurse, a midwife and a Plunket nurse.
2. Plunket Society n. the Royal New Zealand Plunket Society (formerly the Royal Society for the Protection of Women and Children), a volunteer agency (now also in receipt of government funding) formed in 1907 to provide antenatal and neonatal care in New Zealand.The society was founded as the Society for the Promotion of the Health of Women and Children by Dr (later Sir) Frederic Truby King (1858–1938).
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1917 N.Z. Free Lance 2 Mar. 14 The Plunket Society has outlived the time when people laughed at it.
1960 N.Z. Dairy Exporter 11 Jan. 59 The Plunket Society..is an integral part of New Zealand life.
2004 Dominion Post (Wellington, N.Z.) (Nexis) 9 Nov. 6 The money will go to the Plunket Society and Mr Norgate is giving the calf to IHC.
II. absol.
3. The Plunket Society (see sense 2); a Plunket clinic or establishment.
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1941 S. J. Baker N.Z. Slang vi. 58 No record..would be complete without reference to the famed organization, the Plunket Society. For the past twenty years or more it has been known as the Plunket.
1960 S. Ashton-Warner Incense to Idols 80 Organize societies for crippled children and the intellectually handicapped, Plunket for the babies, Heritage for the care of War Orphans.
1990 Sunday Mag. (N.Z.) 1 Apr. 43 Last year the Health Department ran a cot death campaign in Plunkets and hospitals.
2004 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 7 July We've got women's refuges and Plunkets that struggle for funds.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

plunketadj.n.1

Brit. /ˈplʌŋkɪt/, U.S. /ˈpləŋkət/
Forms: late Middle English plonkete, late Middle English plonkeut, late Middle English plounkette, late Middle English plunkket, late Middle English–1500s ploncket, late Middle English–1600s plonket, late Middle English– plunket, 1500s plumket, 1500s pluncket, 1600s plunkett.
Origin: Apparently a borrowing from French. Etymon: French plunket.
Etymology: Apparently < Anglo-Norman plunket, plonkett (adjective) lead-coloured, grey (1351 or earlier), (noun) dark cloth (1367 or earlier), alteration (with suffix substitution: see -et -et suffix1 and compare note below) of Middle French plonquié , ploncquié , plonkié (adjective) lead-coloured, grey (1254 in Old French), (noun) kind of grey cloth (1380), use as adjective and noun of past participle of plonquier , regional (Walloon and Picardy) variant of plongier to cover with lead (late 12th cent.: see plunge v.). Compare post-classical Latin plunkettum (c1378, 1414 in British sources), plonkettum (1399 in a British source). Compare blunket adj., blunket n.The Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French suffix -et -et suffix1 is common in the names of coloured fabrics, e.g. blanket blanket n. and adj., burnet burnet n.2, russet russet n., etc. It is unclear whether the following early examples (in senses of the adjective and noun) are to be interpreted as showing the Anglo-Norman or the Middle English word:1375–6 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1901) III. 582 Pro 12 uln. de plunkett.1385 in Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum (1817) I. 1366 Unum mantellum Johannis Holand de velvetto, duplicatum cum tartarin-plunket.1393 in A. H. Thomas Cal. Plea & Mem. Rolls London Guildhall (1932) III. 200 [One dozen of] plunket [cloth, 20 s.; one dozen and 2 yds. of red cloth].1399 Cal. Inquisitions (1963) VI. 243 [Henry Peterburgh of Burbrigg, weaver, wove..cloths dyed] plunket [in the first 6 years and] blewe [in the remainder].
Now historical and rare.
A. adj.
Of a light greyish-blue colour; light blue; (also) made of wool of this colour. Cf. blunket adj. Obsolete.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > [adjective] > greyish blue
perse-blue1414
plunket1415
persec1425
grey-blue1741
iron blue?1758
smoke-blue1807
gunpowder1817
slaty-blue1854
Silurian1892
powder-blue-grey1952
1415 in E. F. Jacob & H. C. Johnson Reg. Henry Chichele (1937) II. 46 (MED) iij cortyns..ij playn and þe þridde striped with plonket riban.
1471 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 566 A jaket of plonket chamlett.
1543 R. Grafton Contin. in Chron. J. Hardyng (longer ed.) f. cli In two or thre places the saied sleues were cut and fastened together againe with a plunket ryband.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. l The Duke of Vaudosme and his bende in clothe of golde, and pluncket veluet.
B. n.1
1. A type of woollen fabric, usually of a grey or light blue colour; (also) a piece of this fabric. Cf. blunket n.
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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] > of specific colour > grey or blue
blunketc1420
plunket1434
vervise1483
plumbet1533
1434–6 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 235 (MED) Receyuid of diuerse persones of the Craft for the liuere, of Murrey and plunket containing cclxxiiij yerdis and j quarter.
1466–7 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 493 My master delyverd..xviij yerdes of fyne plonket.
1483–4 in Statutes of Realm (1816) II. 489 That this Acte..extende not..to the makynge..of eny Clothe called..Plounkettes, Turkyns, or Celestrines.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. xxij Sodainly the Mount opened, and out came sixe ladies all in Crimosin satin and plunket, enbroudered with Golde and perle.
1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Plonkets, a kind of wollen cloth.
a1650 S. D'Ewes Jrnls. Parl. Queen Elizabeth anno 1593 (1682) 502/2 One of the Committees in the Bill concerning the breadth of Plunkets, Azures, Blues and other Coloured Cloaths, &c.
1721 C. King Brit. Merchant II. 96 What is become of our noble Manufacture of Plunkets, Violets, and Blues, formerly made in Suffolk?
1799 J. Strutt Compl. View Dress & Habits People of Eng. II. v. iii. 198 Long-coloured cloths called plunkets, azures, blues.
1876 J. R. Planché Cycl. Costume I. 402 Plunket, a cloth made in Wiltshire, Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk.
1960 C. W. Cunnington et al. Dict. Eng. Costume 269/2 Plunket, a woollen textile, usually of a blue colour.
2. A light greyish-blue colour; a dye of this colour. Obsolete.
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Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 406 Plunket [a1500 King's Cambr. adds coloure], jacinctus.
1466 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 329 xxiij narow clothes called statutes, of the..color of red viij, and of the colour of plonkeut xv.
c1500 in J. Harley et al. Rep. MSS R. R. Hastings (1928) I. 425 To mak blewe: Tak a litel flory of the wodfat and malle it smal in a bolle..temper it thyk and have a sad blewe, and temper it thyne and have a plunket.

Compounds

plunket-colour n. Obsolete
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c1475 MS Sloane 4 in Notes & Queries (1864) 2 July 4 (MED) For to dye whyte horse here for anglyng..woode youre here in a wooden fatte a lyght plunket coloure.
1496 Treat. Fysshynge wyth Angle in Bk. St. Albans (rev. ed.) sig. hij Lete woode your heer in an woodefatte a lyght plunket colour.
1560 N. Udall Floures for Latine Spekynge f. 192 Cæsius,..and glaucus, is blew or greie, as the skie is whan it hath little speckes of grey cloudes in a fayre day, as it were a plumket [1533 plumbet] colour.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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