单词 | trencher-cap |
释义 | trencher-capn. A popular name for the academic or college cap, ‘in shape thought to resemble an inverted trencher with a basin upon it’ (Farmer and Henley); a mortarboard. Also transferred one who wears a college cap, a collegian: cf. catercap n. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] scholara1400 studentc1450 collegian?1462 colligionist1570 velvet-cap1602 college-man1611 collegiate1616 matriculate1712 trencher-cap1721 collegianer1818 bursch1830 matriculator1850 matriculant1860 stude1907 Joe College1932 matriculand1954 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > cap > types of > denoting office or profession > academic four-cornered capc1440 corner-cap1566 cornered cap1583 square cap1584 cap1611 university cap1646 trencher-cap1721 trencher1834 muffin cap1837 mortarboard1854 house cap1863 colleger1889 square1928 1721 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (1754) xxxv. 186 Neither do I find that these trencher-caps are more polite to their own dear countrymen, than they are to foreigners. 1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) Trencher Cap, the square cap worn by the collegians, at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. 1811 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 74/1 His Royal Highness..was covered, during the whole time of his sitting.., by a trencher cap, with a gold tassel. 1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. i. 16 I walked about two inches taller in my trencher cap after it. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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