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单词 purrell
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purrelln.

Forms: late Middle English purrel, 1500s–1600s purrell.
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a borrowing from French. Etymons: French burel, burrelle, burelle.
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps < Anglo-Norman burel (masculine), burrelle (feminine) kind of coarse cloth (c1160 or earlier), barrulet (second half of the 13th cent. or earlier in heraldic use) and Middle French burelle horizontal stripe on a shield (15th cent. in heraldic use; French burelle , burèle ): see burel n.1 Compare also Anglo-Norman burelé , burellé and Middle French, French burelé barruly (second half of the 13th cent. or earlier in Anglo-Norman in heraldic use), striped (early 14th cent. or earlier in Anglo-Norman). With the initial p- in English perhaps compare pudding n. and discussion at that entry.
Obsolete.
A transverse stripe or bar made by one or a number of coloured weft threads in a web of cloth.Act 35 Eliz. c. 10 ordered that this should be woven at the beginning and end of a piece of weaving as evidence of its full length and to prevent its subsequent fraudulent shortening.
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c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 584/6 Forago, a lyste, or a purrel. [Cf. Forago, ‘a dividing thread (in a web)’, Lewis & Short; ‘a thread inserted to distinguish a day's work’, Riddle.]
1592 Proclam. 20 Jan. We also straightly charge and command all the said Weauers, that euery of them..shall also shut one purrell through both the ends of the same [cloth], of some coloured yarne, euery such purrell to be three quarters of an inch breadth at the least.
1618 in M. Sellers Acts & Ordinances Eastland Company (1906) 57 Noe brother of this Companye or his Factour or servante shall..shipp any Cloth into Th'eastparts which shall have two purrells or a particon in the middle under the pennaltie aforesaid.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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