单词 | torchet |
释义 | † torchetn. Obsolete. A small torch; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > torch > [noun] > small taperOE torchet1470 matchc1595 1470–1 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1888) III. 214 Nec r. de aliquo proficuo proveniente de torcheis sive torchettis consimili modo oblatis ad corpora mortuorum. 1497 in W. M. Williams Ann. Founders' Co. (1867) 48 Paid to the Wax~chandler for ij torchets weynt iij quarters, vj d. 1535 in Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS: Var. Coll. (1907) IV. 218 That then the said torches and torchettes to be in a redynes, light with convenyent berers. 1604 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 305 Mortores, Torchetts, Torches, Quarrioures, Waxelights, Sizes, and Pricketts. 1614 A. Gorges tr. Lucan Pharsalia vi. 429 Where Leos sparkling torchets are In enterchange with Cancers starre. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1470 |
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