| 单词 | tambour-frame |
| 释义 | > as lemmastambour-frame tambour-frame n. = sense 4. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > frame stoolc1385 tent1548 frame1728 tambour1780 tambour-frame1781 web frame1845 tabouret1858 1781 in H. M. Brooks Olden Time Series (1886) IV. 52 Isaac Greenwood..makes Flutes,..Tea-Boards, Bottle-Stands, Tamboy [sic] Frames. 1782 J. Byng Diary 24 Aug. in Torrington Diaries (1934) I. 74 The long gallery is furnish'd with modern frippery, as tambour frames, &c. 1798Tambour-frame [see tambour-needle n.]. 1812 M. Edgeworth Emilie de Coulanges in Tales Fashionable Life V. 25 She would rather see Emilie guillotined at once, than condemned..to work, like a galley slave, at a tambour frame, for her bread. 1884 Bookseller 6 Nov. 1190/1 She..added to their slender earnings by her skill at the tambour frame. < as lemmas |
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