tricoteusen.
/triːkəˈtəːz/, U.S. /ˌtrikəˈtəz/ 1. A woman who knits; applied spec. to women who, during the French Revolution, sat and knitted at meetings of the Convention or at guillotinings. Also transferred.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > one who sees > [noun] > bystander or onlooker
circumstanta1513
bystander1534
stander-by1534
looker-on?1536
onlooker1550
titlark1800
tricoteuse1828
railbird1894
society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > revolution > [noun] > revolutionary > participant in specific revolution
regicide1648
revolutioner1690
sansculotte1790
federate1793
regicide1793
terrorist1794
Thermidorian1801
tricoteuse1828
filibuster1854
nihilist1868
peshmerga1963
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > knitting > one who
knitter?1518
knitster1648
weaver1825
tricoteuse1828
machine-knitter1927
1828 W. Hazlitt Life Napoleon Buonaparte I. vi. 284 It was this [popular fury] that inspired the Furies of the Guillotine, and sat and smiled in the galleries of the Convention with the tricoteuses of Robespierre!
a1886 M. B. Chesnut in C. V. Woodward M. Chesnut's Civil War (1981) viii. 183 Jenny Barron, Jenny Cooper and Mary Hammy have gone to have their photographs taken as ‘Tricoteuses’, each armed with their knitting.
1905 Baroness Orczy Scarlet Pimpernel i. 8 The old hags, ‘tricotteuses’ [sic] as they were called, who sat there and knitted, whilst head after head fell beneath the knife.
1940 M. Dickens Mariana viii. 309 The eyes of the tricoteuses nearly came out of their heads, and the less hardened of them dropped a stitch.
1961 Guardian 19 Apr. 10/6 Is it fair that the Conservative Women's Conference should..be thought of as..a collection of elegant Tricoteuses?
1972 R. Quilty Tenth Session i. 66 The inner circle around the victim, the eager tricoteuses who always collected at any drama on the streets.
1973 Listener 22 Nov. 727 The wife of the production manager..sits sourly knitting on set like a tricoteuse at the guillotine.
2. Antiques. (See quot. 1960.)
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > table > [noun] > other tables
dormant tablec1405
set board1512
chair-table1558
oyster table1559
brushing-table1575
stand board1580
table-chair1671
reading table1749
worktable1762
centre table1775
pier table1778
loo-table1789
screen table1793
social table1793
octoped1822
claw-table1832
bench table1838
mould1842
end table1851
pedestal table1858
picnic table1866
examining table1877
silver table1897
changing table1917
rent table1919
capstan table1927
conference table1928
tricoteuse1960
Parsons1962
overflow table1973
butcher's block1976
1960 H. Hayward Connoisseur's Handbk. Antique Collecting 287/2 Tricoteuse (Fr.), a term probably of 19th-cent. origin, applied to a small work-table surrounded by a gallery, part of which can be lowered to contain sewing materials.
1973 Country Life 30 Aug. (Suppl.) 72/2 Mahogany Tricoteuse with black line inlay. English, circa 1810.
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