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单词 polka pelisse
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polka pelisse
a. Prefixed to or designating various items, esp. textiles, fashion accessories, or articles of clothing, as polka hat, polka pelisse, etc. Now historical except in polka dot n.The use of polka as a commercial name developed in the 1840s due to the huge popularity of the dance in that period.
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1844 Times 8 Nov. 8/3 Splendid and magnificent novelties..the Czarina, the Polka Pelisse, and Marquise Pelerine, [etc.].
1846 A. J. H. Duganne Daguerreotype Miniature 7 A pair of patent-leather boots and a Polka hat were the extremes of his apparel.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 367/2 We won't give a farden for the polka hats with the low crowns.
1907 N.E.D. at Polka sb.1 Polka curtain-band (for looping up curtains).
1924 L. Harmuth Dict. Textiles (ed. 3) 144/2 Polka Gauze, Swivel embroidered dots scattered over a gauze ground; used for dresses, etc.
1995 Boston Globe (Nexis) 29 Mar. 60 When polka was a national rage in the 19th century, there were also ‘polka hats’ and another fabric known as ‘polka gauze’.
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