单词 | roan cloth |
释义 | > as lemmasroan cloth 2. Designating a kind of cloth, esp. a linen, made at Rouen, as roan cloth, roan linen, etc. Cf. Rowan n.2. Now historical and rare. 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 flax, hemp, or jute > [adjective] > linen > types of throwneOE sindonc1500 roan1545 Holland1554 lawny1598 osnaburg1681 1545 Inventare Roger Palmer in M. Rylatt & M. A. Stokes Excavations Broadgate East 1974–5 (?1996) 18/1 Rone..bokerame 24 pyses and 20 yardes, £3 8s. 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Vestis Rotomagensis, Roan clothe. 1568 J. Hortop in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1600) II. 491 Our Generall gaue vnto euery one of vs sixe yards of Roane cloth. 1625 G. percy in S. Purchas Pilgrimes IV. ix. ii. 1685 Bringing vs..Roane Cloth..which they had gotten out of certaine Spanish ships that were cast away. 1694 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais vi. 26 With the Fleece of these [sheep] your fine Roan Cloth is to be made. 1887 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices V. 578 Even cheaper than this is Roan fustian [in accounts of the 16th and 17th centuries]. 1907 L. Williams Arts & Crafts Older Spain 122 Among the woven fabrics..are..ruan (Roan linen). < as lemmas |
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