单词 | secretage |
释义 | secretagen. A process of preparing furs for felting: see quot. 1835. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with skins > [noun] > furriery > specific processes secretage1791 fur-pulling1886 tail-twisting1887 pointing1900 stranding1935 1791 W. Hamilton tr. C.-L. Berthollet Elements Art of Dyeing I. i. ii. i. 131 The furs of hares..cannot be employed alone for felting, without having undergone a previous operation which is called secretage. 1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 129 The furs of the hare, the rabbit, and the castor, being naturally straight, cannot be employed alone for felting, till they have acquired a curling texture at their points, by the application of nitrate of mercury,—an artifice called secretage. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 811 The nitrate of mercury is employed for the secretage of rabbit and hare-skins. 1866 A. J. Cooley Toilet & Cosmetic Arts xvii. 481 Sécretage Liquid, Permanent Curling Fluid. 1880 J. Paton in Encycl. Brit. XI. 518/2. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1791 |
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