单词 | plunket |
释义 | Plunketn.2 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. ΘΚΠ 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. 5 ‘Plunket 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). ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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 Now historical and rare. Of a light greyish-blue colour; light blue; (also) made of wool of this colour. Cf. blunket adj. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ 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. 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] > 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. ΚΠ 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. CompoundsΚΠ 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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