| 单词 | sumpter cloth |
| 释义 | > as lemmassumpter cloth sumpter cloth n. a cloth or blanket designed to cover the back of a sumpter or packhorse, or its load, and often richly decorated. ΚΠ 1554 Inventory in J. Hooker Life Sir P. Carew (1857) App. E. 177 ij sompter clothes. 1666 London Gaz. No. 97/2 Thirty seven Mules with their Sumpter-Cloaths nobly embroidered with Gold. 1766 H. Brooke Fool of Quality II. xii. 270 I have seen an ass clothed in a very gorgeous sumpter-cloth. 1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor viii, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. I. 223 Without the saddle, being decored wi' the broidered sumpter-cloth. 1983 Burlington Mag. 125 294/2 Sumpter cloths, used to cover bales of goods moved by pack-horse.., were often richly embroidered or made of tapestry. < as lemmas |
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