| 单词 | the cape |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe Cape 2. the Cape: some familiar headland; esp. the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. Hence familiarly for Cape Colony (now historical), Cape Province (now historical), the Western Cape, and elliptically for Cape funds, wine (Cape wine at Compounds 1a), wool, etc.; also for Cape leather or capeskin (capeskin n.). Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > promontory, headland, or cape > [noun] > specific fare1653 the Cape1667 UP1881 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 641 Through the wide Ethiopian to the Cape . View more context for this quotation 1686 London Gaz. No. 2180/4 The 25th of June they all sailed from the Cape. 1829 R. Southey Inscriptions Caledonian Canal i, in A. Cunningham Anniversary 194 Vessels which must else have braved The formidable cape, and have essayed The perils of the Hyperborean sea. 1833 T. Hood in Comic Ann. ii Bucellas made handy, With Cape and bad Brandy. 1884 York Herald 23 Aug. 7/2 Wool Markets..Capes are without improvement. 1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 1 Oct. 5/2 Capes..were practically unsaleable at the beginning of this week, investors fighting shy of the stock of a colony whose future, etc. a1888 Mod. He has gone out to the Cape, to try sheep-farming. 1897 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 104. 228/2 Men's Genuine Medium Weight Cape Goat Driving Gloves. 1915 K. J. Adcock Leather ii. 11 Large quantities of Cape hides are sent to England. 1921 B. E. Ellis Gloves & Glove Trade iv. 58 Real Cape gloves are usually bark-tanned..but many gloves sold as ‘Capes’ are tawed and dyed by the dipping process. 1929 Penberthy's Sale Catal. Mar. 26 Men's English Tan Cape,..Boulton cut. 1956 Gloss. Leather Terms (B.S.I.) 7 Cape, originally a soft, grain gloving or clothing leather made from South African hair sheep skin; now any similar leather made from hair sheep skin, but not finished leather made from E.I. native vegetable tanned hair sheep skin. < as lemmas |
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