Wellingtonn.
/ˈwɛlɪŋt(ə)n/, U.S. /ˈwɛlɪŋt(ə)n/ I. Compounds.
1. attributive. Designating various items of clothing named after or popularized by the Duke of Wellington, as Wellington coat, Wellington hat, Wellington trousers, etc. Now chiefly historical except as in wellington boot n. 2.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > other
cap (also hat) of maintenancec1475
hat1483
wishing-hat1600
cockle hat1603
porringer1623
poke1632
custard-cap1649
bonnet1675
muff-box1678
Caroline1687
Quaker1778
meat safe1782
balloon hat1784
gypsy hat1785
cabriolet1797
gypsy bonnet1803
Gypsy1806
Wellington hat1809
fan-tail-hat1810
umbrella hat1817
radical1828
caubeen1831
topi1835
montera1838
Petersham1845
squash hat1860
Moab1864
kiddy1865
flap-hat1866
Dolly Varden1872
brush-hata1877
potae1881
Pope's-hat1886
plateau1890
kelly1915
push-back1920
kiss-me-quick hat1963
pakul1982
tinfoil hat1982
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > types of > other
russet coatc1425
syon1511
party coat1559
patch-coat?1608
undercoat1648
turncoat1726
wambais1761
straw coat1783
coatlet1795
Wellington coat1809
redingote1823
shad-belly1842
cutaway1849
reliever1850
blouse1861
shooter1870
square-cut1893
stroller1901
Redfern1909
sherwani1911
teddy bear1925
swagger coat1933
swing-coat1935
Crombie1951
tent coat1961
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [noun] > trousers > types of > other
whites1582
trouse1612
pantaloon1661
trousers1676
sherryvallies1778
Wellington trousers1809
panties1845
prolongations1849
pettiloons1851
overtrousers1852
churidar1880
continuation1883
high water1898
sponge bag trousers1900
sponge bag1911
pettibockers1917
hip-hugger1939
pink1942
suntan1943
samfu trousers1955
hipsters1958
low riders1966
Mao trousers1967
bumsters1993
1809 Repository of Arts Oct. 262 You will receive the Wellington bonnet, formed of the same material, and ornamented with a shaded rose-coloured ribbon, and a willow feather to correspond.
1811 La Belle Assemblée May 30/2 (advt.) Mrs. Baker recommends to their particular notice the Wellington Hat and Mantle, which is greatly admired and very prevailing.
1814 La Belle Assemblée Aug. 81/2 A principal novelty..is the Wellington corset, which will be found particularly desirable for pregnant ladies, for ladies who have had families, [etc.].
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian i, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 22 The preposterous length of their great-coats, and the equally fashionable latitude and longitude of their Wellington trowsers.
1828 T. Creevey in H. Maxwell Creevey Papers (1904) II. 155 Yesterday morning he made his first appearance in a new ‘Wellington’ Coat (a kind of a half-and-half great Coat and undercoat, you know, meeting close and square below the knees).
1837 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 22 Apr. 97/1 We..are clothed from top to toe in Wellington boots, Wellington cloaks, Wellington bonnets.
1893 G. Hill Hist. Eng. Dress II. 254 Wellington hat with the yeoman Crown.
1906 S. J. Weyman Chippinge xxi. 199 Under the escort of gentlemen in tightly strapped white trousers and blue coats—or in Wellington frocks, the latest mode.
1941 Prairie Schooner 15 155 This particular campaign was the one in which ‘Wellington Trousers’ came to be named just that.
2010 J. Justiss Most Unconventional Match iv. 43 ‘Wellington pantaloons are quite stylish now,’ he said, shaking out the garment and holding it up.
2. Wellington apple n. a large, somewhat flattened variety of cooking apple, having a pale yellow skin and juicy, whitish flesh; now usually called Dumelow's seedling.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > apple > cooking apple > types of
codlingc1390
rambour1600
codling apple1654
stubbard1736
biffin1794
Spitzenberg1795
Keswick codlin1814
Wellington1821
Wellington apple1824
Rome beauty1846
Lord Derby1862
Lane's Prince Albert1875
Bramley('s) seedling1900
Newton Wonder1932
1824 Forsyth's Treat. Fruit Trees (ed. 7) 132 Crab,..Dumelows. Wellington Apple.
1839 C. McIntosh Orchard & Fruit Garden 18 Dumelow's Seedling [Syn. Wellington Apple, Dumelow's Crab].
1900 Country Life Illustr. 24 Nov. 656/1 No suburb long enjoys acres of Hessle pears and Wellington apples.
2010 R. Sanders Apple Bk. 123 Dumelow's Crab..was introduced in 1819 or 1820 by the Turnham Green Nursery as Wellington Apple.
3. Cookery.
a. attributive or as postmodifier (and in à la Wellington). Designating any of various dishes named after the Duke of Wellington. Now rare except as in sense 3b.
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1827 Times 18 Dec. 2/2 A ‘Wellington pudding’ was exhibited to the public [of Buckingham]... The following are the ingredients of which it is composed:—Flour, 140lb.; plums, 84lb.; [etc.].
1863 C. E. Francatelli Cook's Guide p. xiv Legs of fowls à la Wellington.
1881 Myra's Jrnl. Dress & Needlework Feb. 83/1 Wellington Pudding.—Ingredients: Puff paste, one pint and a half of milk, six eggs, half a pound of loaf sugar, some apricot jam.
1910 Table Talk Apr. 215/2 Wellington sandwiches. Take half a pound of cool cooked beef, mutton, or veal,..six turned olives, [etc.].
b. attributive or (esp.) as postmodifier (also in à la Wellington). Designating a dish consisting of meat (originally and chiefly beef) or (less commonly) fish, vegetables, etc., wrapped in puff pastry, frequently having first been dressed with a richly flavoured coating of pâté, chopped or minced mushrooms, or the like. Chiefly in beef Wellington n. at beef n. Additions.
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1903 Los Angeles Times 28 Oct. 13/1 Fillet of beef, a la Wellington.
1923 Southern Pacific Bull. Mar. 15/1 He [sc. Paul Reiss] will tell you how to prepare his ‘Filet of Beef a la Wellington’ and then you will realize why the late Lord Kitchener after tasting the dish sent for him and extended to Reiss his personal appreciation of his art.
1930 Charleston (W. Va.) Daily Mail 9 Jan. 9/6 How about—let's see—beef Wellington?
1976 Arcadia (Calif.) Tribune 29 Apr. b7/6 (advt.) Chef's speciality..Salmon Wellington.
1999 Food & Wine Apr. 26/2 The English-trained chef..prepares African–British menus, from traditional British roast beef with Yorkshire pudding to crocodile curry with pappadams to ostrich Wellington with spiced rice.
2010 R. Becker Brains xv. 123 Imagine you haven't eaten in a week and your favorite dish—fried chicken or foie gras, beef Wellington or beef tacos—is in front of you.
4. attributive. Chiefly in Wellington chest. Designating a tall narrow chest of (usually shallow) drawers, often lockable by means of a hinged flap running vertically in front of the drawers.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > [adjective] > types of furniture generally
standing1444
plush1615
Queen Elizabeth1673
occasional1749
Adametic1774
French-polished1836
upholstered1837
Adamish1838
Chippendale1855
Queen Anne1863
knock-down1875
Wellington chest1880
Adamesque1881
Sheraton1883
Hepplewhite1897
quaint1897
bombé1904
lowboy1915
Jacobean1918
overstuffed1922
spool1928
Williamsburg1931
thermed1952
stackable1958
Scandinavian1959
wall-to-wall1959
Populuxe1986
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > chest of drawers > [noun] > other types of
foot-gang1530
lobby chest1803
wagon box1810
wagon chest1827
bahut1840
Wellington chest1880
tansu1885
mule chest1911
Wellington1936
1880 Times 5 Aug. 16/5 (advt.) Wellington chest of seven drawers.
1914 Times 30 Apr. 3/4 (advt.) Two Wellington chests.
1938 E. Bagnold Squire i. 14 He heard her..go to her Wellington cabinet in the passage.
1960 H. Hayward Connoisseur's Handbk. Antique Collecting 304/2 Wellington chest, a tall narrow chest containing about a dozen drawers which can be locked by a single hinged flap securing all the drawers.
1971 Country Life 7 Oct. (Suppl.) 23 (advt.) A small antique mahogany Wellington chest of drawers measuring only 19½ inches wide, 14 inches deep and 41 inches high.
2011 Western Morning News (Nexis) 9 Apr. 24 A fine, graduated seven-drawer Wellington chest in mahogany.
II. Simple uses.
5. Usually in plural.
a. Originally: a high boot covering the knee in front and cut away behind. Later also: a somewhat shorter boot worn under trousers; (more generally) any of various more or less formal styles of (usually relatively high) boot; = wellington boot n. 1. Now chiefly historical.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > boot > [noun] > reaching to below knee
bootingc1300
sabatinec1460
brodequin1481
buskin1503
bottine?a1513
Russian boot1781
half-boot1787
Wellington1816
blucher1833
squaw boot1942
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > boot > [noun] > reaching to knee > types of
Wellington1816
field boot1856
1816 European Mag. Feb. 109/2 The dress and manners of the English..are represented with tiny hats, long waisted coats, huge Wellingtons, or long loose gaiters, all in the extreme.
a1821 J. Keats Mod. Love in R. M. Milnes Life, Lett. & Literary Remains Keats (1848) I. 283 Miss's comb is made a pearl tiara, And common Wellingtons turn Romeo boots.
1854 C. Knight Once upon a Time II. 266 The tops lasted till Wellingtons and trousers drove them out.
1869 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 416 The cavalry have Wellingtons and jackboots.
1886 Aberdeen Jrnl. 17 Dec. 2/5 A felt hat..finishes off this ‘costume de chasseresse’ at one end, while a miniature pair of Wellingtons complete it at the other.
1916 C. Webb-Johnson Soldiers' Man. Foot Care 17 The German recruit is given one pair of Wellingtons (lange stiefel)... The Wellingtons are of black calf skin, into which the trousers can be tucked.
1938 C. L. Morgan Flashing Stream i. i. 47 He is in dress-shirt, trousers, wellingtons.
1978 Amer. Motorcyclist Apr. 23 (advt.) Dress Wellingtons. 10″ leather shaft with soft leather lining. Sueded heel lining for secure fit.
2002 Charleston (W. Va.) Daily Mail (Nexis) 18 July 3 d Forty-four years ago, I joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and was required to spit-shine two pairs of brown riding boots..and one pair of Wellingtons.
2009 M. DeMello Feet & Footwear 84 In the 1840s, the Duke of Wellington began wearing a lower boot that was more closely fitted to the leg. These boots, known as Wellingtons, were worn by officers in wars throughout the nineteenth century.
b. A waterproof boot, usually reaching above the mid-calf, typically made of rubber or synthetic material, and suitable to be worn in wet or muddy conditions; = wellington boot n. 2.In early use not always clearly distinguishable from sense 5a, with early waterproof boots of this type being made in a similar style.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > boot > [noun] > waterproof > types of
waders1841
wading-boots1866
wellington boot1886
Wellington1891
welly1961
1891 Fishing Gaz. 17 Jan. (advt.) Waterproof fishing boots. 13 pairs Napoleons... 5 [pairs] Wellingtons, heavy make, wide fitting, 16in. high... 8 [pairs] Half-Wellingtons,..9in. high.
1898 I. L. Bird Korea & her Neighbours I. vii. 103 After a few of such risks I habitually landed, either on a boatman's back or wading in waterproof Wellingtons.
1911 Eng. Illustr. Mag. June 293/2 I have found a pair of india-rubber Wellingtons most useful when camped in grass.
1944 D. Welch Jrnl. 25 Jan. (1973) 107 He wore an old thick jersey, and grey flannels tucked into Wellingtons.
1955 Life 21 Mar. 138 (caption) The cattlemen..carry hazel rods to make the beasts mind, and wear ‘Wellingtons’, rubber boots named after the high leather boots worn by the Duke of Wellington's troops.
1984 Brian Mills Catal. Spring–Summer 337/4 Waterproof wellington in PVC.
2003 Church Times 14 Feb. 36/3 I sat on the step to pull on my wellingtons before taking a saw to the last of the apple-wood.
6. = Wellington apple n. at sense 2. Now rare.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > apple > [noun] > cooking-apple > types of
codlingc1390
rambour1600
codling apple1654
biffin1794
Keswick codlin1814
Wellington1821
Lord Derby1862
Lane's Prince Albert1875
Bramley('s) seedling1900
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > apple > cooking apple > types of
codlingc1390
rambour1600
codling apple1654
stubbard1736
biffin1794
Spitzenberg1795
Keswick codlin1814
Wellington1821
Wellington apple1824
Rome beauty1846
Lord Derby1862
Lane's Prince Albert1875
Bramley('s) seedling1900
Newton Wonder1932
1821 Trans. Hort. Soc. 4 529 Mr. Richard Williams..sent..specimens of an Apple called the Wellington, a very handsome and long keeping variety.
1882 Garden 18 Mar. 182/3 Cooks go generally for the Wellington as a cooking Apple.
1902 H. H. Thomas Bk. Apple 60 From December onwards we have Sandringham, Wellington (Dumelow's Seedling), Striped Beefing, Northern Greening, [etc.].
1936 H. V. Taylor Apples Eng. ii. 255 Wellington is still listed by most firms. Largely grown in gardens and orchards.
7. = Wellington chest at sense 4.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > chest of drawers > [noun] > other types of
foot-gang1530
lobby chest1803
wagon box1810
wagon chest1827
bahut1840
Wellington chest1880
tansu1885
mule chest1911
Wellington1936
1936 ‘A. E. Fielding’ Myst. at Rectory vi. 75 She unlocked a Wellington in the window. Every single drawer, she thought, had been searched.
1953 ‘N. Blake’ Dreadful Hollow iv. 50 There was the wellington to which Stanford Blick had directed him. Nigel opened one of its drawers.
2010 D. Devonshire Wait for Me! xxv. 332 I am especially happy to have the pair of Wellingtons (not boots) that used to be in my sitting room at Chatsworth. These tall, narrow, red leather-fronted drawers..are a godsend for storing papers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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