单词 | short-coat |
释义 | short-coatn. 1. A person wearing a short coat. Also attributive in † short-coat vicarage n. Obsolete (meaning obscure). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [noun] > wearing other clothing > one who Court-mantlec1367 Sunday citizen1598 longcoat1603 lettice ruffa1625 silkworma1625 copester1637 short-coat1649 Scotch-sleeve?1706 Evite1713 uniform1786 nude1810 blue-stockinged1818 waistcoateer1825 padder1828 stook of duds1834 bloomer1851 sleeve1851 shirt1860 shirtwaister1900 DJ1926 rat-catcher1928 sweater girl1940 zoot-suiter1942 Edwardian1954 penguin1967 overcoat1969 1649 W. Blith Eng. Improver xii. 68 Where those great Impropriations are that devoure all the Profits, and have all to a short-coat Vicaridge. 1847 B. Disraeli Tancred I. ii. x. 242 There was a strong feeling against the shortcoats [i.e. ‘two tall footmen in short coats’]. 2. plural. The garments in which an infant is clothed when the long clothes are laid aside. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online September 2020). short-coatv. a. transitive. To dress (an infant) in short clothes. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] > in specific way > with specific garments > short clothes short-coat1784 shorten1871 tuck1888 1784 M. Underwood Treat. Dis. Children 235 It will be adviseable, in order to inure infants to the air, that they be short-coated as early as the season of the year will permit. 1888 M. Bradshaw Indian Outfits 32 It is best to short-coat babies in the Plains, after the first month. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 746 Infants when first short-coated often suffer in this way [from chill]. b. figurative in passive. To emerge from babyhood. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > baby or infant > [verb (intransitive)] > emerge from babyhood to cut one's eyeteeth1697 short-coat1890 1890 Athenæum 22 Feb. 238/1 The North-West Territories are waiting to be shortcoated. Derivatives short-coating n. used collectively for the various articles required when a child is short-coated. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > for specific people > for children > short clothes short clothes1816 short-coating1895 1895 Stores Price List. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < |
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