单词 | bongrace |
释义 | bongracen. 1. A projecting brim or shade attached to the front of a bonnet or headdress, protecting the wearer's face from the sun. Also figurative and in extended use. Cf. shadow n. 13b. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > parts of headgear > [noun] > hood or brim to protect face bongrace1530 shadow1578 curtain1788 shade1818 ugly1850 poke1859 sunshade1868 sun visor1920 visor1939 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 907 The bone grace, le moufflet. 1533 J. Heywood Mery Play Pardoner & Frere sig. A.iiv Her bongrace which she ware with her french hode Whan she wente oute alwayes for sonne bornynge. ?1569 T. Underdowne tr. Heliodorus Æthiopian Hist. v. f. 84v Cariclia..tied a parte of her Fascia that was foule about her heade, sufferinge it to hange ilfauouredly ouer her eies in steede of a Bonnegrace. 1604 T. Dekker Magnificent Entertainm. sig. G3 This boon-grace hee made of purpose to keepe his face from heate. 1609 T. Heywood Troia Britanica vi. civ. 137 A groue, through which the lake doth run, Making his bowes a Bon-grace from the Sun. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. iv. i. 170 A French shadow of veluet to defend them from the Sunne, which our Gentlewomen of old borrowed of the French, and called them Bonegraces, now altogether out of vse with vs. 1636 W. Davenant Platonick Lovers v. i. sig.K3 Had she beene but old Enough to weare a bondgrace on her brow. 1695 G. Baillie Househ. Bk. (1911) 189 For a bongrace to my Robin. 1773 R. Fergusson Auld Reikie 13 Some take a great delight to place The modest Bongrace o'er the Face. 1892 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Bongrace,..This article of costume is yet in regular use among the women workers in the Northumberland fields, but the sweetness of the old name is now-a-days lost to us, and it is commonly called an ‘ugly’. 1959 R. T. Wilcox Mode in Hats & Headdress (new ed.) ix. 83 The bongrace was the awning-like piece projecting over the forehead, a protection against sunburn. 1983 National Art Coll. Fund News Sept. 26/1 In both portraits the sitter has chosen to wear a bonnet with a shade, or bongrace, with a jewelled billiment, or trimming. 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 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 165/2 Umbella, a broad brim hat to keepe off heat and rayne; a bone-grace. 1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 75 A broad brim'd Hat upon his head. [margin] Or Bond-grace. 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. xi. 148 Burn-graces in Summer to save childrens Faces. ?1690 Merry Bag-pipes (single sheet) Her Bongrace was of wended Straw. 1709 E. Ward London-Spy Compleat (ed. 4) I. iv. 77 They leer at us under their Bongraces. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. iii. 37 An old-fashioned bonnet called a Bongrace. 1855 Chambers Jrnl. Nov. 200/2 Ladies are fain to turn up the skirts of their gowns and cover their heads with bongraces, while trooping along under the rain. 1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. 64 Bongrace, a coarse straw hat, especially worn by country-women. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > fender junk1528 puddinga1625 fender1626 fend1658 fend-bolt1678 bongrace1685 skid1743 pudding fender1883 sausage1968 1685 N. Boteler Six Dialogues Sea-services iv. 195 Adm. What is that that you Seamen call a Boun-grace? Capt. It is a certain Frame or Composition of old Ropes or Juncks of Cables, which is used to be laid out at the Bows, Stems and Sides of Ships, to preserve them from great Flakes of Ice, when they sail far Northwards, or far Southwards. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Bon grace, junk-fenders; for booming off obstacles from a ship's sides or bows. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1530 |
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