单词 | bodice |
释义 | bodicen. 1. Formerly. a. An inner garment for the upper part of the body, quilted and strengthened with whalebone (worn chiefly by women, but also by men); a corset, stays; frequently called a pair of bodies (bodice) = a pair of stays at stay n.2 3a. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > underwear > [noun] > bodice waistcoat1580 petticoat body1585 bodicea1625 jump1666 jacket bodice1856 camisole1866 spencer1881 bust bodice1889 liberty bodice1892 petticoat bodice1919 cami1995 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > underwear > [noun] > corset busk1581 a pair of stays1608 bodicea1625 stay1731 corset1795 belt1818 foundation garment1927 foundation1939 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > bodice lyfkie1578 bodicea1625 waist1816 shirt-gown1889 a1625 J. Fletcher Loyal Subj. ii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ddd4/2 If the bones want setting In her old bodies. a1637 B. Jonson Under-woods xlii. 32 in Wks. (1640) III The whale-bone man That quilts those bodies, I have leave to span. 1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. v. 131 A Flower without its Empalement, would hang as uncouth and taudry as a Lady without her Bodies. 1679 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 23 Mowbray..having a pair of bodice on, and falling down as if really dead, the assassinate fled. 1706 London Gaz. No. 4196/4 A pair of new blewish Bodice. 1781 S. Johnson Pope in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets VII. 224 [Pope] was invested in boddice made of stiff canvass, being scarce able to hold himself erect till they were laced. b. figurative. ΚΠ 1752 H. Fielding Covent-Garden Jrnl. 30 Nov. 2/1 His Sentiment when let loose from that stiff Boddice in which it is laced. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1872) III. xviii. 303/1 It was never..found politic to put trade into straitlaced bodices. 2. The upper part of a woman's dress, a tight-fitting outer vest or waistcoat, either made in a piece with the skirt or separate (cf. body n.); formerly also, an inner vest worn immediately over the stays. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > dress, robe, or gown > parts of > bodice bodice1566 corsage1843 1566–7 Prec. Treas. in Chalmers Mary (1818) I. 207 Of ormaise taffatis to lyne the bodies and sclevis of the goune and vellicote. a1640 J. Fletcher et al. Faire Maide of Inne ii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Eeeeeee4/1 Nothing but her upper bodies. 1682 G. Wheler Journey into Greece i. 64 They wear a Bodies of Red or Green Velvet. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 276. ⁋3 He keeps me in a pair of Slippers, neat Bodice, warm Petticoats. 1873 W. Black Princess of Thule vii. 105 She wore a tight-fitting bodice of cream-white flannel. Compounds attributive and in other combinations, as bodice hand, bodice-maker, bodice-seller. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in textiles, clothing, or yarns mercerc1230 clothier1362 draper1362 woolman1390 yarn-chopper1429 line-draper1436 Welsh drapera1525 telerc1540 purple-seller1547 linen-draper1549 staplera1552 silkman1553 woollen-draper1554 wool-driver1555 woolster1577 linener1616 woolner1619 linen-man1631 ragman1649 rag merchant1665 slop-seller1665 bodice-seller1672 piece-broker1697 wool-stapler1709 cloth-man1723 Manchester-man1755 fleece-merchanta1774 rag dealer1777 man's mercer1789 keelman1821 man-mercer1837 cotton-broker1849 slopper1854 shoddyite1865 costumier1886 cotton-man1906 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making other clothing > [noun] > making other items of clothing > one who makes other items of clothing wimpler1260 paltock-maker1376 wimplester1379 point-maker1405 girdler1428 silk-maid1474 pointer1500 middlemana1525 jack-maker1541 paste-wife1550 silkman1553 body-maker1573 linen-armourer1603 bodice-maker1672 costumier1798 costumer1830 costumist1842 rober1852 stock-maker1858 tie-maker1901 1672 R. Wild Let. Declar. Liberty Conscience 2 A neighbouring Bodies-maker, that whistles a Psalm-tune. 1684 London Gaz. No. 1980/4 Mr. John Nichols Bodice seller at the Falcon on London Bridge. 1701 London Gaz. No. 3758/8 At Mr. Cade's, a Bodice-seller. 1759 S. Johnson Idler 20 Jan. 17 The Taylors and Boddice-makers of the present Age. Draft additions 1997 bodice-ripper n. colloquial a sexually explicit romantic novel, esp. one in a historical setting with a plot involving the seduction of the heroine; also transferred, a film of a similar nature. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > type of film > [noun] > other types romantic comedy1748 epic1785 pre-release1871 foreign film1899 frivol1903 dramedy1905 film loop1906 first run1910 detective film1911 colour film1912 news film1912 topical1912 cinemicrograph1913 scenic1913 sport1913 newsreel1914 serial1914 sex comedy1915 war picture1915 telefilm1919 comic1920 true crime1923 art house1925 quickie1926 turkey1927 two-reeler1928 smellie1929 disaster film1930 musical1930 feelie1931 sticky1934 action comedy1936 quota quickie1936 re-release1936 screwball comedy1937 telemovie1937 pickup1939 video film1939 actioner1940 space opera1941 telepic1944 biopic1947 kinescope1949 TV movie1949 pièce noire1951 pièce rose1951 deepie1953 misterioso1953 film noir1956 policier1956 psychodrama1956 free film1958 prequel1958 co-production1959 glossy1960 sexploiter1960 sci-fier1961 tie-in1962 chanchada1963 romcom1963 wuxia1963 chick flick1964 showreel1964 mockumentary1965 sword-and-sandal1965 schlockbuster1966 mondo1967 peplum1968 thriller1968 whydunit1968 schlocker1969 buddy-buddy movie1972 buddy-buddy film1974 buddy film1974 science-fictioner1974 screwball1974 buddy movie1975 slasher movie1975 swashbuckler1975 filmi1976 triptych1976 autobiopic1977 Britcom1977 kidflick1977 noir1977 bodice-ripper1979 chopsocky1981 date movie1983 kaiju eiga1984 screener1986 neo-noir1987 indie1990 bromance2001 hack-and-slash2002 mumblecore2005 dark fantasy2007 hack-and-slay2007 gorefest2012 kidult- society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > novel > [noun] > romantic novel > sexually explicit bodice-ripper1979 bonkbuster1988 1979 N.Y. Times 2 Sept. xxi. 2/5 Vanessa Royall is..enjoying a good reputation and lucrative income as the author of the sort of breathless historical romances (the latest is ‘Come Faith, Come Fire’) that are known in the publishing trade as bodice-rippers. 1980 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 28 Dec. Women..too have their pornography: Harlequin romances, novels of ‘sweet savagery’, bodice-rippers. 1981 J. Sutherland Bestsellers vii. 85 The most dramatic innovation in the field of popular women's fiction was the success of ‘hot ones’, ‘bodice rippers’, or ‘sweet and savages’ as they were called. 1984 E. Jong Parachutes & Kisses xii. 208 That scene in bodice-ripper romances where the vulnerable heroine meets the rakehell hero. 1987 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Apr. 408/3 British cinema belatedly grew up—or so people thought at the time. Out, by and large, went the last traces of the Gainsborough bodice-rippers. 1989 C. D. Geist in C. R. Wilson & W. Ferris Encycl. Southern Culture 863/2 Historic romances in an Old South setting were..similar to the traditional historical romance... By the 1970s the form was referred to as the ‘bodice ripper’ by critics. 1991 Gay Times Jan. 57/4 Replete with interesting details about gay life in the city at that time, this..novel is really a bodice-ripper constrained within a thriller corset. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1566 |
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