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单词 wilton
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Wiltonn.1

Brit. /ˈwɪlt(ə)n/, U.S. /ˈwɪlt(ə)n/
Etymology: < the name of Wilton, a town in the south of Wiltshire, noted since the reign of Queen Elizabeth I for the manufacture of carpets.
Applied to (a) a kind of cloth, (b) a carpet of which the manufacture resembles that of Brussels carpet but differing in having the rib cut so as to produce a velvet pile.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric from specific place > [noun]
irislams1375
westvale1383
hinderland1465
ypir?1517
Normandy1529
Ghentish1545
mant1575
Scots cloth1581
northerna1592
turquesques1594
Westphalia1612
nilla1614
phota1616
Norwich stuff1618
Venus1629
nicanee1652
East India1659
caffoy1678
Bengal1681
Mantua1699
coffoy1703
Chello1712
negannepaut1725
Russia drab1741
Wilton1744
toile de Jouy1784
sorting-cloth1847
rum-swizzle1851
sarong1858
Yokohama1879
Turkoman1881
Mexican1883
kanga1895
Milanese1926
leso1961
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > floor-covering > [noun] > carpet > Wilton
Wilton1744
1744 Pennsylvania Gaz. 1 Nov. (Suppl.) 2/2 Wilton and Scotch carpets.
1754 Pennsylvania Gaz. 13 June 2/3 (advt.) Just imported..corded wiltons, barragons, nankeens, bombazeens.
1776 Pennsylvania Evening Post 21 May 256/2 A brick coloured Wilton coattee.
1889 A. Conan Doyle Micah Clarke xxiii. 234 As soft and velvety as a Wilton carpet.
1904 Bradbury Carpet Manuf. i. 43 The difference in shade was greatest in Wilton and Velvet pile structures.
1904 Bradbury Carpet Manuf. iv. 127 The wire used for Wilton is usually deeper and therefore produces a loftier pile than Brussels.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

Wiltonn.2

Brit. /ˈwɪlt(ə)n/, U.S. /ˈwɪlt(ə)n/
Etymology: < the name of the farm Wilton, the type-site to the north-west of Grahamstown, Eastern Cape province, South Africa.
attributive. Denoting a later Stone Age culture of southern Africa.
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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [adjective] > specific Stone Age
Wilton1922
Gumban1931
Magosian1932
society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [noun] > specific stone-age culture
Arctic Stone Age1881
Wilton1959
1922 J. Hewitt in S. Afr. Jrnl. Sci. June 454 A series of six larger specimens [of implement],..differing in size from the Wilton crescents, were found in a shell-mound.
1928 A. J. H. Goodwin in Ann. S. Afr. Mus. (1929) XXVII. x. 251 Our first knowledge of the Wilton Industry comes from the Cape Peninsula, various crescents, thumbnail scrapers, and the like appearing from a number of kitchen middens and sand-dune sites in this district.
1936 L. S. B. Leakey Stone Age Afr. v. 96 In the Wilton culture the most typical tools are,..crescents and other small geometric microliths, together with small double-end and thumb-nail scrapers.
1959 J. D. Clark Prehist. Southern Afr. ii. 41 The Wilton [culture] is named from the rock-shelter on the farm of that name west of Grahamstown. Its distribution is very wide.
1985 J. Deacon in S. Afr. Panorama Sept. 6 The Wilton people..were specialised hunters of the grey rhebok.
1999 H. J. Deacon & J. Deacon Human Beginnings S. Afr. vii. 114 Wilton assemblages occur in Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia as well as South Africa, but not in the dry interior.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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