单词 | rokelay |
释义 | rokelayn. Chiefly Scottish. Now historical. A short cloak worn by women esp. during the 18th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > loose clothing > cloak, mantle, or cape > types of > small or short mantletc1385 semicopec1405 capiteberne1473 scapulary mantle1548 rokelay1709 cloaket1717 cardinal1745 chlamys1750 cape1759 manteline1807 short-cloak1837 mantilla1848 cloaklet1865 dolmanette1883 capelet1912 1709 Bill (James Keir, tailor, Glasgow) Dec. Item 2 ell & ¾ Cloath to be your Ladies Roculla. 1720 in Proc. Orkney Antiquarian Soc. (1933) 11 40 3½ yeards fine scarlett att 22/½–per Ell for a Rockla to her. 1773 R. Fergusson Poems 117 Country John in bonnet blue, An' eke his Sunday's claise on, Rins after Meg wi' rokelay new, An' sappy kisses lays on. 1801 H. Macneill Poet. Wks. II. 65 He has coft me a rocklay o' blue. 1814 W. Scott Waverley I. xi. 147 Having, moreover, put on her clean toy, rokelay, and scarlet plaid. View more context for this quotation 1821 W. Scott Pirate I. vii. 183 The best chance of getting a new rokelay and owrelay. 1881 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 526 Old women in white mutches and scarlet rokelays. 1917 ‘R. Dehan’ Under Hermés 234 Buckle my sword, and now put a rokelay on me, and kiss me, and call a chair and a link out of the Square. 1997 G. Tulloch in C. Jones Edinb. Hist. Scots Lang. x. 392 The kind of cloak known as a rokelay is named after the Duc de Roquelaure (1656-1738) who brought it into fashion. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1709 |
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