单词 | to lay in lavender |
释义 | > as lemmasto lay (up) in lavender 2. The flowers and stalks of Lavandula vera, placed among linen or other clothes in order to preserve them from moths when they are to be stored for some time. to lay (up) in lavender: (a) to lay aside carefully for future use; (b) slang to pawn; (c) to put out of the way of doing harm, as a person by imprisoning him or the like. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > [noun] > that which protects from moths lavender1584 the world > action or operation > safety > make safe or secure [verb (transitive)] > make safe or not dangerous > put out of the way of doing harm to lay (up) in lavender1584 the mind > possession > supply > storage > store [verb (transitive)] > carefully or as redundant to lay (up) in lavender1584 mothball1926 society > trade and finance > financial dealings > borrowing money > borrow money [verb (transitive)] > pawn to give (also have, lay, put, take) to pledgec1384 to set, put, lay to or in wedc1384 engage1525 pawn1570 to lay (up) in lavender1584 impawn1598 oppignorate1622 pignorate1623 dip1640 to put to lumber1671 vamp1699 pop1731 sweatc1800 spout1811 lumber1819 up the spout1819 hock1878 soak1882 to put away1887 1584 Stanford Churchwardens' Accts. in Antiquary (1888) 17 210/1 It. lavender for the churche clothes. 1589 T. Nashe To Students in R. Greene Menaphon Epist. sig. **2v Bought at the deerest though they smell of the friplers lauander halfe a yeere afetr [sic]. 1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. D3 Hee is readye to lend the looser money vpon rings..or any other good pawne, but the poore gentleman paies so deere for the lauender it is layd vp in, that [etc.]. 1605 G. Chapman et al. Eastward Hoe v. sig. H2 Good faith, rather then thou shouldest pawne a ragge more Il'd lay my Ladiship in lauender, if I knew where. 1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. ii. sig. B4 He..ha's a iest still in lauender for Bellarmine. a1639 H. Wotton Let. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1651) 512 Yours hath lyen so long by me (as it were in lavender) without an answer. 1648 N. Ward To Parl. at Westm. 9 It is the duty of a State to lay him [the king] solemnly in such kind of Lavender as grows in the 27. of Deuteronomy. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Layd-up-in Lavender, when any Cloaths or other Moveables are pawn'd or dipt for present Money. 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel II. xii. 302 Lowestoffe is laid up in lavender only for having shewn you the way into Alsatia. 1826 W. Scott Malachi Malagrowther ii The ornaments are redeemed from the pawn-brokers, worn perhaps on the Sunday, and returned to lavender (as the phrase goes) on the next Monday. 1858 W. M. Thackeray Virginians I. xxxiii. 258 What woman..has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cup~boards of her heart? 1888 Academy 18 Feb. 111/3 The old maid..with her little romance carefully preserved in the lavender of memory. < as lemmas |
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