bloomern.¹

Brit.

/ˈbluːmə/, U.S.

/ˈblumər/

Etymology: < bloom v.¹ + -er suffix¹.

a. A plant that blooms (in some way).

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the world > plants > valued plants and weeds > [noun] > valued plant > flower or plant esteemed for its blossoms

flower?a1513

bloomer1736

blower1796

the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > flower or flowering plant > [noun]

flower?a1513

gentle-heart1648

bloomer1736

blower1796

phaenogam1846

phanerogam1861

1736 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum (ed. 2) Bloomers, blooming buds.

1882 Garden 7 Jan. 8/2 Those that have a tendency to be shy bloomers are placed in the lightest part of the house.

1885 Harper's Mag. Apr. 710/2 A New England white rose, a perennial bloomer.

b. [Perhaps a different word.] A large white crusty loaf resembling the Vienna roll, with a rounded diagonally slashed top, and baked on the oven bottom. Also attributive, as bloomer loaf.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > loaf > [noun] > other types of loaf

white loafeOE

barley loafc950

French loafc1350

pease loafc1390

penny loaf1418

jannock?a1500

household loaf1565

boon-loaf1679

farmhouse loaf1795

cottage loaf1829

potato loaf1831

sod1836

Coburg1843

sweet roll1851

stale1874

Hovis1890

Sally Lunn1901

bloomer loaf1937

wholemeal1957

baguette1958

1937 W. T. Banfield in Brit. Baker 12 Mar. 20/1 This bloomer loaf is also the easiest loaf to cut into slices... The loaf is glazed by setting the dough into a suitably humid oven... A genuine bloomer is enriched with milk, sugar, lard or butter.

1958 Times 21 Nov. 7/2 Rye loaves, wheatmeal loaves, baton-shaped loaves called ‘Bloomers’, Scottish baps, all had a place.

1969 M. Wiggin Cottage Idyll iv. 114 I bought my bread, saying clearly and distinctly, ‘Two small bloomer loaves, please.’

2. [for blooming letter : see blooming adj. 6.] A floriated initial letter of the alphabet.

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society > communication > writing > written text > decoration > [noun] > decorated letters

red lettera1387

blooming (initial) letter1713

miniature initial1895

versal1895

bloomer1899

1899 J. W. Mackail Life W. Morris II. 256 The large floriated initials, or ‘bloomers’, in the slang of the press.

1901 Sunday Times 21 Apr. This book will be in the new type, with a fresh set of ‘bloomers’ specially designed for it.

3. slang. [See quot. 1889.] A very great mistake: chiefly in to make a bloomer.

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > blunder [verb (intransitive)]

shail1528

blunder1711

floor1835

to make a bloomer1889

pull1913

to drop a brick1916

boob1935

to put up a black1939

goof1941

to screw up1942

to drop a bollock1948

to drop a clanger1948

to cock up1974

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > [noun] > serious error, blunder

blunder1706

blunderbuss1726

floor1841

bull1846

howler1872

atrocity1878

break1884

bloomer1889

boner1912

bish1937

black1939

blue1941

cock-up1946

piss-up1950

screw-up1950

blob1952

1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang Bloomer (Australian), prison slang for a mistake. Abbreviated from the expression ‘a blooming error’.

1902 Westm. Gaz. 25 Nov. 8/1 The defendant replied, ‘You have made a bloomer, old chap; you never made a greater mistake in your life.’

1919 P. G. Wodehouse Damsel in Distress xv. 166 I think you are making the bloomer of a lifetime over this hat-swatting chappie.

1928 Daily Express 19 Apr. 15 His mount, Clearmount, made a terrible bloomer at the last fence.

1959 Economist 6 June 920/1 ‘The Times’..has this week made a bloomer about a minister.

Compounds

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bloomer-pit n. a tan-pit or large vat in which hides are treated with a strong infusion of tanning liquor or ooze; a ‘layer’.

Draft additions March 2004

figurative. A person who is reaching maturity or in the process of realizing his or her potential; a person or thing as judged on rate of development or achievement (usually expressed by a preceding adjective). See also early bloomer n. (b) at early adj. and n. Compounds 2, late bloomer n. (b) at late adj.¹ Compounds 4.

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1814 F. Burney Wanderer III. lviii. 392 The test of sense and temper in the waning beauty..in maturity, shocked and amazed to see herself supplanted by the rising bloomers.

1961 Science 10 Nov. 1493/2 The slow bloomers—words that achieved full status only after lingering in the Addenda from 1945 on.

1989 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 19 Apr. 1 d The Pirates say Dunne, the belated bloomer, still hasn't come to full flower.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

bloomern.²

Etymology: < the name of Amelia Jenks Bloomer (1818–1894), an American lady who introduced the costume; in earlier and historical uses often with capital initial.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈbloomer.

a. (More fully Bloomer costume, bloomer dress): A style of female attire consisting of a short skirt and long loose trousers gathered closely round the ankles. So attributive Bloomer principles, bloomer movement.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > set or suit of clothes > [noun] > for specific people > for women > other

ensemble1802

Bloomer costume1851

coat and skirt1895

blouse suit1905

jumper suit1908

suit dress1917

tailleur1923

twin set1937

salwar-kameez1955

co-ordinates1959

theatre suit1964

trikini1967

1851 Boston Transcript 27 May 2/3 The Bee says the daughter of Dr. Hanson, of this city, appeared in the Bloomer suit..last week.

1851 Boston Transcript 29 May 2/4 The first ‘Bloomer’ made its appearance in our city yesterday.

1851 Boston Transcript 29 May 2/4 Quite a large number of young ladies in that city have made arrangements to attend church tomorrow in the Bloomer costume.

1853 ‘Old Etonian’ Alphabet Annotated 61 Until they all the Bloomer dress assume.

1855 Kansas Tribune Perhaps Lawrence [Kansas] is the only city in America where the majority of the ladies wear Bloomers.

1868 Reade True Love II. iv. 154 At sight of Miss Courtenay in a Bloomer he was ravished.

1875 I. L. Bird Hawaiian Archipel. x. 130 Deborah looked very piquante in a bloomer dress of dark blue.

b. Regularly in plural. Loose trousers reaching to the knee or knickerbockers worn by women for bicycling, gymnasium practice, etc.; called also ‘rational dress’. Also, a woman's knee-length undergarment (the usual sense in later usage).In quots. 1862, 1863, man's attire.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [noun] > trousers > types of > wide or loose

slops1481

shipman's hose1540

slop1560

shipman's breek1563

drawers1567

kelsouns1568

scaling1577

scavilones1577

scabilonian1600

calzoons1615

linings1631

swabber-slopsa1658

pantaloon1686

underslops1737

trousers1773

pyjamas1801

Cossacks1820

Turkish trousers1821

hakama1822

salwar1824

slacks1824

sherwal1844

overall1845

bag1853

sack-pants1856

bloomer1862

trouser skirt1883

petticoat trousers1885

mompe1908

step-in1922

bombachas1936

baggies1962

jams1966

palazzo1970

hose-

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [noun] > trousers > types of > wide or loose > for cycling, etc.

pantaloon1814

pants1851

trouserettes1857

pantalettes1881

rationals1889

bloomer1895

pantalettes1897

1862 C. Dickens Somebody's Luggage: His Boots in All Year Round Extra Christmas No., 4 Dec. 9/1 A Corporal of his country's army, in..the line of his waist, the broadest line of his Bloomer trousers, and their narrowest line at the calf of his leg.

1863 Miss Jemima's Swiss Jrnl. (1963) i. 7 Soldiers in many uniforms, some of them most laughable, their capacious bloomer costume reaching to the centre of the calf of the leg.

1895 Westm. Gaz. 25 July 8/1 Female teachers who have been riding bicycles in male attire, commonly called bloomers.

1906 J. Galsworthy Man of Prop. iii. i. 289 She could tell you..what they were doing in Paris about wearing bloomers.

1909 Daily Chron. 5 Aug. 7/3 [The hockey girl] in her short skirts, bloomers, flannel blouse, and cloth cap.

1967 Observer 30 Apr. 29/3 The tireless search for something else has paused for a moment to put matching bloomers or shorts under the skirt.

2. A woman who wears bloomer costume.

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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

1851 Punch 30 Aug. 103/2 If women assume the dress of men, let them undertake men's duties; hence, every Bloomer shall be liable to be drawn for the militia, without benefit of substitute.

1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour viii. xliii. 238 (heading) A Literary Bloomer.

1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour viii. xliii. 239 Lucy,—a young lady of a certain age—say liberal thirty—an ardent Bloomer.

1854 Congress. Globe 20 May App. 717 Bloomers wearing the apparel of men, and men wrapped in the apparel of women.

1868 Reade True Love II. ii. 153 She then burst out crying, which was an unfair advantage the Bloomer took over poor Reginald.

3. A kind of hat with a broad brim worn by ladies.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > with a brim > broad-brimmed > other

petasus1577

bongrace1585

sombrero1770

parachute1786

Pamela hat1802

Gainsborough1878

bloomer1883

cartwheel1884

picture hat1887

cowgirl hat1897

Stetsonc1900

shtreimel1902

Merry Widow1908

ten-gallon hat1928

lemon-squeezer1953

Smokey Bear1969

Akubra1973

1883 Life Mrs. Prentiss vi. 177 A small shawl and my bloomer on.

Derivatives

ˈbloomered adj. wearing bloomer costume.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing a suit or set of clothes > types of

pyjamaed1883

blue-suited1884

bloomered1895

zoot-suited1942

bikinied1959

sailor-suited1960

trouser-suited1966

sack-suited1978

shell-suited1991

1895 Advance (Chicago) 6 June 1287 The ‘new woman’,..though not necessarily of the bloomered type, is marching..to victory in Wisconsin.

1900 Daily News 4 Dec. 6/5 In these days of Lady Wranglers and bloomered ‘sportswomen’.

1907 Westm. Gaz. 2 Oct. 1/3 The outer lines were marked by companies of..bloomered Tirailleurs.

1960 Times 27 Sept. 13/6 A bloomered girl in the foreground.

ˈbloomerism n. the principles of Amelia Bloomer as to female costume.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > set or suit of clothes > [noun] > for specific people > for women > other > principles of

bloomerism1851

1851 (title) ‘Bloomerism’, or the new female costume of 1851.

1857 C. Reade Course True Love II. ii. 134 She was pretty far gone in bloomerism.

1882 Lady Harberton Dress Reform in Macmillan's Mag. 45 456 ‘Bloomerism’ still lurks in many a memory.

ˈbloomerize v. (transitive) to dress in bloomers; also figurative.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] > in specific way > with specific garments > trousers

breech1468

trouser1867

bloomerize1885

1885 E. Lynn Linton Autobiogr. Christopher Kirkland III. i. 18 Doubtful whether they were girls Bloomerized or boys in feminine tunics.

1897 Daily News 3 Feb. 6/4 The New Woman..has fairly bloomerised journalism in the United States.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

单词	bloomer
释义	bloomern.¹ Brit. /ˈbluːmə/, U.S. /ˈblumər/ Etymology: < bloom v.¹ + -er suffix¹. 1. a. A plant that blooms (in some way). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > valued plants and weeds > [noun] > valued plant > flower or plant esteemed for its blossoms flower?a1513 bloomer1736 blower1796 the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > flower or flowering plant > [noun] flower?a1513 gentle-heart1648 bloomer1736 blower1796 phaenogam1846 phanerogam1861 1736 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum (ed. 2) Bloomers, blooming buds. 1882 Garden 7 Jan. 8/2 Those that have a tendency to be shy bloomers are placed in the lightest part of the house. 1885 Harper's Mag. Apr. 710/2 A New England white rose, a perennial bloomer. b. [Perhaps a different word.] A large white crusty loaf resembling the Vienna roll, with a rounded diagonally slashed top, and baked on the oven bottom. Also attributive, as bloomer loaf. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > loaf > [noun] > other types of loaf white loafeOE barley loafc950 French loafc1350 pease loafc1390 penny loaf1418 jannock?a1500 household loaf1565 boon-loaf1679 farmhouse loaf1795 cottage loaf1829 potato loaf1831 sod1836 Coburg1843 sweet roll1851 stale1874 Hovis1890 Sally Lunn1901 bloomer loaf1937 wholemeal1957 baguette1958 1937 W. T. Banfield in Brit. Baker 12 Mar. 20/1 This bloomer loaf is also the easiest loaf to cut into slices... The loaf is glazed by setting the dough into a suitably humid oven... A genuine bloomer is enriched with milk, sugar, lard or butter. 1958 Times 21 Nov. 7/2 Rye loaves, wheatmeal loaves, baton-shaped loaves called ‘Bloomers’, Scottish baps, all had a place. 1969 M. Wiggin Cottage Idyll iv. 114 I bought my bread, saying clearly and distinctly, ‘Two small bloomer loaves, please.’ 2. [for blooming letter : see blooming adj. 6.] A floriated initial letter of the alphabet. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written text > decoration > [noun] > decorated letters red lettera1387 blooming (initial) letter1713 miniature initial1895 versal1895 bloomer1899 1899 J. W. Mackail Life W. Morris II. 256 The large floriated initials, or ‘bloomers’, in the slang of the press. 1901 Sunday Times 21 Apr. This book will be in the new type, with a fresh set of ‘bloomers’ specially designed for it. 3. slang. [See quot. 1889.] A very great mistake: chiefly in to make a bloomer. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > blunder [verb (intransitive)] shail1528 blunder1711 floor1835 to make a bloomer1889 pull1913 to drop a brick1916 boob1935 to put up a black1939 goof1941 to screw up1942 to drop a bollock1948 to drop a clanger1948 to cock up1974 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > [noun] > serious error, blunder blunder1706 blunderbuss1726 floor1841 bull1846 howler1872 atrocity1878 break1884 bloomer1889 boner1912 bish1937 black1939 blue1941 cock-up1946 piss-up1950 screw-up1950 blob1952 1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang Bloomer (Australian), prison slang for a mistake. Abbreviated from the expression ‘a blooming error’. 1902 Westm. Gaz. 25 Nov. 8/1 The defendant replied, ‘You have made a bloomer, old chap; you never made a greater mistake in your life.’ 1919 P. G. Wodehouse Damsel in Distress xv. 166 I think you are making the bloomer of a lifetime over this hat-swatting chappie. 1928 Daily Express 19 Apr. 15 His mount, Clearmount, made a terrible bloomer at the last fence. 1959 Economist 6 June 920/1 ‘The Times’..has this week made a bloomer about a minister. Compounds Categories » bloomer-pit n. a tan-pit or large vat in which hides are treated with a strong infusion of tanning liquor or ooze; a ‘layer’. Draft additions March 2004 figurative. A person who is reaching maturity or in the process of realizing his or her potential; a person or thing as judged on rate of development or achievement (usually expressed by a preceding adjective). See also early bloomer n. (b) at early adj. and n. Compounds 2, late bloomer n. (b) at late adj.¹ Compounds 4. ΚΠ 1814 F. Burney Wanderer III. lviii. 392 The test of sense and temper in the waning beauty..in maturity, shocked and amazed to see herself supplanted by the rising bloomers. 1961 Science 10 Nov. 1493/2 The slow bloomers—words that achieved full status only after lingering in the Addenda from 1945 on. 1989 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 19 Apr. 1 d The Pirates say Dunne, the belated bloomer, still hasn't come to full flower. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). bloomern.² Etymology: < the name of Amelia Jenks Bloomer (1818–1894), an American lady who introduced the costume; in earlier and historical uses often with capital initial.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈbloomer. 1. a. (More fully Bloomer costume, bloomer dress): A style of female attire consisting of a short skirt and long loose trousers gathered closely round the ankles. So attributive Bloomer principles, bloomer movement. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > set or suit of clothes > [noun] > for specific people > for women > other ensemble1802 Bloomer costume1851 coat and skirt1895 blouse suit1905 jumper suit1908 suit dress1917 tailleur1923 twin set1937 salwar-kameez1955 co-ordinates1959 theatre suit1964 trikini1967 1851 Boston Transcript 27 May 2/3 The Bee says the daughter of Dr. Hanson, of this city, appeared in the Bloomer suit..last week. 1851 Boston Transcript 29 May 2/4 The first ‘Bloomer’ made its appearance in our city yesterday. 1851 Boston Transcript 29 May 2/4 Quite a large number of young ladies in that city have made arrangements to attend church tomorrow in the Bloomer costume. 1853 ‘Old Etonian’ Alphabet Annotated 61 Until they all the Bloomer dress assume. 1855 Kansas Tribune Perhaps Lawrence [Kansas] is the only city in America where the majority of the ladies wear Bloomers. 1868 Reade True Love II. iv. 154 At sight of Miss Courtenay in a Bloomer he was ravished. 1875 I. L. Bird Hawaiian Archipel. x. 130 Deborah looked very piquante in a bloomer dress of dark blue. b. Regularly in plural. Loose trousers reaching to the knee or knickerbockers worn by women for bicycling, gymnasium practice, etc.; called also ‘rational dress’. Also, a woman's knee-length undergarment (the usual sense in later usage).In quots. 1862, 1863, man's attire. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [noun] > trousers > types of > wide or loose slops1481 shipman's hose1540 slop1560 shipman's breek1563 drawers1567 kelsouns1568 scaling1577 scavilones1577 scabilonian1600 calzoons1615 linings1631 swabber-slopsa1658 pantaloon1686 underslops1737 trousers1773 pyjamas1801 Cossacks1820 Turkish trousers1821 hakama1822 salwar1824 slacks1824 sherwal1844 overall1845 bag1853 sack-pants1856 bloomer1862 trouser skirt1883 petticoat trousers1885 mompe1908 step-in1922 bombachas1936 baggies1962 jams1966 palazzo1970 hose- the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [noun] > trousers > types of > wide or loose > for cycling, etc. pantaloon1814 pants1851 trouserettes1857 pantalettes1881 rationals1889 bloomer1895 pantalettes1897 1862 C. Dickens Somebody's Luggage: His Boots in All Year Round Extra Christmas No., 4 Dec. 9/1 A Corporal of his country's army, in..the line of his waist, the broadest line of his Bloomer trousers, and their narrowest line at the calf of his leg. 1863 Miss Jemima's Swiss Jrnl. (1963) i. 7 Soldiers in many uniforms, some of them most laughable, their capacious bloomer costume reaching to the centre of the calf of the leg. 1895 Westm. Gaz. 25 July 8/1 Female teachers who have been riding bicycles in male attire, commonly called bloomers. 1906 J. Galsworthy Man of Prop. iii. i. 289 She could tell you..what they were doing in Paris about wearing bloomers. 1909 Daily Chron. 5 Aug. 7/3 [The hockey girl] in her short skirts, bloomers, flannel blouse, and cloth cap. 1967 Observer 30 Apr. 29/3 The tireless search for something else has paused for a moment to put matching bloomers or shorts under the skirt. 2. A woman who wears bloomer costume. 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 1851 Punch 30 Aug. 103/2 If women assume the dress of men, let them undertake men's duties; hence, every Bloomer shall be liable to be drawn for the militia, without benefit of substitute. 1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour viii. xliii. 238 (heading) A Literary Bloomer. 1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour viii. xliii. 239 Lucy,—a young lady of a certain age—say liberal thirty—an ardent Bloomer. 1854 Congress. Globe 20 May App. 717 Bloomers wearing the apparel of men, and men wrapped in the apparel of women. 1868 Reade True Love II. ii. 153 She then burst out crying, which was an unfair advantage the Bloomer took over poor Reginald. 3. A kind of hat with a broad brim worn by ladies. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > with a brim > broad-brimmed > other petasus1577 bongrace1585 sombrero1770 parachute1786 Pamela hat1802 Gainsborough1878 bloomer1883 cartwheel1884 picture hat1887 cowgirl hat1897 Stetsonc1900 shtreimel1902 Merry Widow1908 ten-gallon hat1928 lemon-squeezer1953 Smokey Bear1969 Akubra1973 1883 Life Mrs. Prentiss vi. 177 A small shawl and my bloomer on. Derivatives ˈbloomered adj. wearing bloomer costume. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing a suit or set of clothes > types of pyjamaed1883 blue-suited1884 bloomered1895 zoot-suited1942 bikinied1959 sailor-suited1960 trouser-suited1966 sack-suited1978 shell-suited1991 1895 Advance (Chicago) 6 June 1287 The ‘new woman’,..though not necessarily of the bloomered type, is marching..to victory in Wisconsin. 1900 Daily News 4 Dec. 6/5 In these days of Lady Wranglers and bloomered ‘sportswomen’. 1907 Westm. Gaz. 2 Oct. 1/3 The outer lines were marked by companies of..bloomered Tirailleurs. 1960 Times 27 Sept. 13/6 A bloomered girl in the foreground. ˈbloomerism n. the principles of Amelia Bloomer as to female costume. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > set or suit of clothes > [noun] > for specific people > for women > other > principles of bloomerism1851 1851 (title) ‘Bloomerism’, or the new female costume of 1851. 1857 C. Reade Course True Love II. ii. 134 She was pretty far gone in bloomerism. 1882 Lady Harberton Dress Reform in Macmillan's Mag. 45 456 ‘Bloomerism’ still lurks in many a memory. ˈbloomerize v. (transitive) to dress in bloomers; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] > in specific way > with specific garments > trousers breech1468 trouser1867 bloomerize1885 1885 E. Lynn Linton Autobiogr. Christopher Kirkland III. i. 18 Doubtful whether they were girls Bloomerized or boys in feminine tunics. 1897 Daily News 3 Feb. 6/4 The New Woman..has fairly bloomerised journalism in the United States. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.¹1736n.²1851
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