单词 | settee |
释义 | setteen.1 Now historical. A decked vessel, with a long sharp prow, carrying two or three masts with a kind of lateen sails, in use in the Mediterranean. Also attributive. settee-sail n. (see quot. 17941).In some of the early quots. the vessel appears to have been a fairly large merchant ship. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [noun] > with specific rig > lateen-rigged > types of settee1587 tartana1588 tartan1621 jerm1632 pattamar1704 dhow1799 sackalever1819 1587 T. Saunders True Discr. Voiage Tripolie sig. Civ M. Barton with all the residue of his companie departed from Tripolie to Oezant in a vessell called a Settea of one Marcus Segoorus. 1653 H. Appleton Remonstr. Fight Legorn-Road 1 The Warwick..takes a French Sattee coming in to the Road. a1665 K. Digby Jrnl. Voy. to Mediterranean (1868) 13 To take that opportunitie to cleanse my shippes and to furnish myselfe with a sattie and other necessaries, and to change my ballast. 1666 Oxf. Gaz. No. 17/4 A Sette came also from Malaga, a Vessel rarely seen in these parts; she is about fifty Tuns, and her Masts like a pair of Taylors Sheers opened. 1667 London Gaz. No. 133/1 An English Satia from Tangier. 1686 W. Hedges Diary 20 Dec. (1887) I. 237 We came up and spoke with a French Settee of Marseles. 1712 Blinston in London Gaz. No. 5026/6 Three Martineco Ships, a Cettee and Gavilan. 1755 in Acts Gen. Assembly Georgia (1881) 53 For every Ship Twenty Seven Shillings and Sixpence for every Snow Brig Polacre or Saetia [printed Sactia] Twenty Two Shillings and Six pence for every Sloop or Schooner [etc.]. 1786 in Amer. St. Papers (1833) I. 107 1 Setye of 34 guns. 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 136 Boat's Settee Sail. This sail is quadrilateral. The head is bent to a latteen-yard. 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 236 Polacre-settee is a vessel with three masts, usually navigated in the levant or mediterranean,..generally rigged with square-sails upon the main and mizen mast, and a latteen-sail upon the foremast, like a xebec. 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 238 Settee, a vessel used in the mediterranean, rigged and navigated similar to xebecs or galleys, with settee-sails instead of latteen-sails. 1860 Earl Dundonald Autobiogr. Seaman (1862) 181 On the 11th [Nov. 1808] we captured a settee. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2020). † setteen.2 Obsolete. rare. A double pinner for the head. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > cap > types of > close-fitting > with flaps pinner1575 settee1688 toy1702 toy-mutch1751 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 482/1 A Coronet settee..covers the Head, and by doubling it makes it stand at a great height both above and besides the Face. 1692 Scarronides ii. 63 With top-knots fine, to make 'em pretty, With tippet, pallateen and settee. 1694 N. H. Ladies Dict. 11/1 A Settee is only a double Pinner. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2021). setteen.3 a. A seat (for indoors) holding two or more persons, with a back and (usually) arms; occasionally also with divisions (see quot. 1785). In America sometimes furnished with rockers. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > sofa or couch > [noun] reclinatoryc1425 crabat1483 coucha1500 daybed1597 squab1664 repose1685 settee1716 sofa1717 long chair1750 duchesse1794 canapé1795 chaise-longue1800 sultane1803 chaise lounge1807 lounge1830 dormeuse1865 takht1884 méridienne1925 Berbice1951 lounger1964 1716 London Gaz. No. 5494/4 All Sorts of Hangings for Rooms and Stair-cases, Chairs, Settees and Screens. 1718 Free-thinker No. 44. 1 The Damask Settee was placed in the Center. 1756 T. Amory Life John Buncle I. 312 An oak settee, on which his bones lay. 1785 W. Cowper Task i. 75 Ingenious Fancy..devis'd The soft settee; one elbow at each end, And in the midst an elbow it receiv'd, United yet divided, twain at once. 1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 336 Settee, a sopha or moveable window-seat; in more modern language called, I believe, conversation stool. I have not heard the word of many years, and believe it is going out. 1840 R. H. Barham Lay St. Gengulphus in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 246 The aforesaid barbe gris..Had been stuff'd in the seat of a kind of settee, Or double-arm'd chair. 1888 E. Eggleston Graysons i. 6 There was a green settee with three rockers beneath and an arm at each end. 1893 C. G. Leland Memoirs II. 141 An abundance of velvet ‘settees’, or divan sofas. 1895 Stores' Price List 192 Cane Settee. b. U.S. (See quot. 1891.) ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > sofa or couch > [noun] > part of sofa sofa-back1878 settee1891 1891 Cent. Dict. Settee,..(b) A small part taken off from a long and large sofa by a kind of arm: thus, a long sofa may have a settee at each end partly cut off from the body of the piece. c. settee-bed n. a bed that can be folded up so as to form a settee. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > folding bed for camp or travelling > sofa-bed or chair-bed settee-bed1769 chair-bed1805 sofa-bed1805 sofa-bedstead1833 put-you-up1924 bed-settee1933 Knole sofa1942 Winnipeg couch1954 sleeper1973 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms Banc à coucher, a sort of folding bed-stead, or settee-bed. 1786 in W. Macgill Old Ross-shire & Scotl. (1909) I. 141 Settee bed with blue and white cheque covers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11587n.21688n.31716 |
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