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单词 wearer
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wearern.

Brit. /ˈwɛːrə/, U.S. /ˈwɛrər/
Etymology: < wear v.1 + -er suffix1.
1.
a. One who wears or carries on his person (a garment, ornament, etc.). Also transferred and figurative.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [noun] > one who
wearer1402
sporter1796
1402 Polit. Poems (Rolls) II. 69 But if my cloth be over presciouse, Jakke, blame the werer.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 88 Werers of piliouns.
1495 Act 11 Hen. VII c. 27 To the great damage losse and disceite of the Kingis true subgettis biers and werers of such fustian.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxviii. 385 Mi gyrdill gay and purs of sylk..Whils I am werere of swylke, The longere mercy may I call.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice ii. ix. 42 O..that cleare honour were purchast by the merrit of the wearer . View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. ii. 7 By Iupiter, Were I the wearer of Anthonio's Beard, I would not shaue't to day.
a1633 G. Herbert Outlandish Prov. (1640) sig. C2v The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 490 Then might ye see Cowles, Hoods and Habits with thir wearers tost And flutterd into Raggs. View more context for this quotation
1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey II. viii. 440 This sword..Whose ivory sheath inwrought with curious pride, Adds graceful terror to the wearer's side.
1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 104 Half of the wearers of buskin and sock.
1849 C. Brontë Shirley I. vi. 105 Her style of dress announced taste in the wearer.
1860 A. Trollope Castle Richmond I. xiii. 275 There are great red swollen noses, very disagreeable both to the wearer and his acquaintances.
1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey II. 264 Caps, cloaks, and rings, which render the wearer invisible.
1878 J. Davidson Inverurie i. 14 What wearers of flesh and blood dwelt then in the sheltered dell?
b. said of a lower animal.
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1876 E. Parfitt in Rep. & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. VIII. 247 This brilliancy of colouring [of some birds] would seem..to compensate the wearers for the melodious voice..of their more sober-painted relatives.
2. That which wears away, consumes or diminishes by attrition.Johnson's example belongs to sense 1.In later dictionaries.
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the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [noun] > loss of material > wearing away > that which
wearer1773
attritor1818
1773 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. (ed. 4) Wearer.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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