| 单词 | velvet gown |
| 释义 | > as lemmasvelvet gown a. Attributive, with the sense ‘made of velvet’, as velvet bag, velvet band, velvet cap, velvet gown, etc., or ‘covered with velvet’, as velvet cushion, velvet furniture. ΚΠ c1350 Lybeaus Disc. 838 A velvwet mantyll gay..Sche caste abowte her swyre. 1480 Wardrobe Accts. Edward IV in N. H. Nicolas Privy Purse Expenses Elizabeth of York (1830) 149 A longe gowne of grene velvet upon velvet tisshue cloth of gold. ?a1535 To City of London (Vitellius) in J. Small Poems W. Dunbar (1893) II. 277 Many a semely knyght..in velvet gownes and cheynes of gold. 1542 in J. W. Clay Testamenta Eboracensia (1902) VI. 159 One other jackett..with velvett bandes. 1612 W. Fennor Cornu-copiæ 33 I thinke them in their hattes as good, As Gentle-women in their veluethood. 1621 Sir R. Boyle in Lismore Papers (1886) II. 17 My wives Tawney vellet gown. c1645 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) I. 5 The red velvet furniture. 1780 E. Burke Speech Oeconomical Reformation 70 Have their velvet bags, and their red boxes, been so full, that nothing more could possibly be crammed into them? 1796 J. Wolcot Satire in Wks. (1812) III. 408 Who with a velvet lash would flog a bear. 1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham III. v. 84 Beneath this was a faded velvet waistcoat. 1848 Lady Lyttelton Corr. (1912) 388 I am sending some narrow velvet ribbon to trim it along the tucks. < as lemmas |
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