单词 | within the lists |
释义 | > as lemmaswithin the lists a. spec. The selvage, border, or edge of a cloth, usually of different material from the body of the cloth. †Phrase, within the lists (usual in statements of measurement). [So French liste in Cotgrave] ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > [noun] > border, edge, or selvage of liser1377 listing14.. list1433 stoothc1440 selvagea1475 selvaging1611 forel1691 1297 Magna Carta Edw. I c. xxv Una latitudo pannorum tinctorum, russetorum, & haubergettorum scilicet due ulne infra listas.] 1433 Rolls of Parl. IV. 452/1 The lyste at the one ende of all soche Streite Clothes. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 307/1 Lyyst of clothe, forago. 1523 Act 14 & 15 Hen. VIII c. 1 All maner of white brode wollen clothes with crumpil listes, otherwise called bastardes. 1535 Act 27 Hen. VIII c. 12 §2 Euery brode cloth shall conteine in breadth seuen quarters of a yarde within the listes at the least. 1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. C v For his breeches they were made of the lysts of broad Cloaths. a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) i. ii. 30 As there may betweene the Lists, and the Veluet. Thou art the List. View more context for this quotation 1677 W. Hubbard Narr. Troubles with Indians New-Eng. ii. 1 The List or Border here being known to be more worth then the whole Cloth. 1700 J. Tyrrell Gen. Hist. Eng. II. 716 Woollen-Cloaths that were not two Ells within the Lists, according to King Richard's [1st] late Assize, or Statute. 1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 186 A few threads of strong coarse yarn are placed to form the lists or selvages of the cloth. 1842 J. Bischoff Comprehensive Hist. Woollen Manuf. II. 396 The list is made in the West of England frequently of goats' hair. 1844 G. Dodd Textile Manuf. Great Brit. iii. 104 The tenter-hooks were driven into poles and rails, and the cloth hung on them by the ‘list’ at the edges. < as lemmas |
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