| 单词 | tails |
| 释义 | > as lemmastails 3. The train or tail-like portion of a woman's dress (in later use colloquial); the pendent posterior part of a man's dress-coat or a peasant's long coat; the loose part of any coat below the waist; (often in plural) the bottom or lower edge of a gown, a skirt, etc., which reaches quite or nearly to the ground; in plural, a tail-coat; a dress suit with tail-coat; dialect the skirt of a woman's dress; tails, skirts. Also (in singular or plural), the back part of a man's shirt that reaches below the waist. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > train tail1297 traina1393 traila1400 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > other netOE sheepskinc1175 tail1297 panec1300 slipc1440 cukera1500 peak1509 waist1590 bumbarrel1609 winglet1611 armhole1731 fullness1792 stride1807 bottom1820 patte1835 buckling1861 ventilator1870 tie-back1880 shield1884 organ pleat1886 outer1904 flarea1910 uplift1929 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > parts of > tail or skirt tail1532 coat-taila1600 lappet1726 sparrow-tail1888 swallowtail1894 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > shirt > part of > tail(s) shirt lapc1300 shirttail1659 tails1845 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > set or suit of clothes > [noun] > evening dress or dress suit evening suit1807 soup-and-fish1829 white tie1849 tails1857 monkey suit1920 black tie1951 penguin suit1961 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > types of > tail-coat tail-coat1846 tails1857 lap1878 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 > skirt(s) skirta1400 basea1509 coat1620 tail1888 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 2513 Þis maide..side drou hire tail Akne to þe king ȝo sede, Louerd king, washayl. a1450 Knt. de la Tour 30 Her hodes, taylles, and sleues be not furred ynowgh after the shape that rennithe now. 1532 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1905) VI. 80 Ane doublat with ane taile, to the Kingis grace. 1568 (?a1513) W. Dunbar in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) II. 150 Sic fowill tailis, To sweip the calsay clene. 1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus iv. f. 61 And Venus taill twa Ladeis vp it beiris. 1690 J. Crowne Eng. Frier v. 47 Madam, speak to the Ladies now I am here, to let down their Trains, 'tis not manners in the presence of a man o' my quality, to cock up their tayls. 1764 S. Foote Lyar i. i. 1 The draggled tail of my tatter'd academical habit. 1845 J. J. Hooper Some Adventures Capt. Simon Suggs 13 From the time he was a ‘shirt-tail boy’, [his wits] were always too sharp for his father's. 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. viii. 192 His friends at home..had'nt put him into tails. 18.. St. Nicholas (U.S.) XIV. 406 (Cent. D.) Once a boy [at Harrow] has reached the modern remove, he puts on his tails, or tailed coat. 1888 Cent. Mag. May 128/1 He crossed the room, stepping over the tails of gowns, and stood before his old friend. 1890 Parnell Speech House of Commons 14 Feb. To go about like the traditional Irishman at Donnybrook Fair, and exclaim ‘Will nobody tread on the tail of my coat?’ 1915 Mrs. H. Ward Eltham House ii. 23 You made up your mind from the time you got into tails at Eton. 1932 S. Gibbons Cold Comfort Farm i. 10 Charles looked well in tails. 1958 B. Nichols Sweet & Twenties 110 Young men wore tails and white ties as a matter of course. 1960 Guardian 16 Dec. 8/3 At balls, even in the London season, tails are not uncompromisingly de rigueur. 1965 R. P. Jhabvala Backward Place iii. 166 He ran after her into the street, the tails of his crumpled shirt flying as he ran. < as lemmas |
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