| 单词 | sprigging business |
| 释义 | > as lemmassprigging business General attributive (chiefly in sense 1), as sprigging business, sprigging work, etc. ΚΠ 1834 Western Christian Advocate (Cincinnati) 2 May 4/4 This is the consequence of the constant employment of the females in what is called the sprigging business, or embroidering on cambric or muslin. 1886 Let. Donegal 25 The collapse of the ‘sprigging’ business, by which at one time a good embroideress could earn 1s. 6d. a day. 1895 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 11 May The Donegal sprigging work is also greatly sought after for trimming cotton gowns. 1929 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 77 490 The once extensive ‘sprigging’ industry of the north-west was largely lost to the machines of Switzerland and Germany. 2004 N. Irish Roots 15 20 There were seventy-seven ‘clippers’ in Bangor. This was part of the process of the ‘sprigging’ work and the highest paid occupation. < as lemmas |
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