单词 | south sea cloth |
释义 | > as lemmasSouth Sea cloth South Sea cloth n. cloth made from the inner bark of various trees in the Pacific Islands, as the jackfruit tree, breadfruit tree, or paper mulberry. ΚΠ 1770 J. Banks Jrnl. Oct. in Endeavour Jrnl. (1962) II. v. 187 On his being told that in this place every different nation wore their own countrey dress, he desird to have his, on which South Sea cloth was sent for on board. 1850 Jrnl. Ethnol. Soc. 2 260 The process..greatly resembles that of making the Egyptian papyrus, and still more closely the preparation of the South-sea cloth. 1978 F. H. Pettit & R. M. Pettit Mexican Folk Toys 66/2 The South Sea cloth is (or was) used for clothing and for making very large panels block printed in decorative patterns. < as lemmas |
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