单词 | purrell |
释义 | † purrelln. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > woven > coloured stripe or bar in purrellc1450 point1780 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). < n.c1450 |
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