单词 | wilton |
释义 | Wiltonn.1 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. ΘΚΠ 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 attributive. Denoting a later Stone Age culture of southern Africa. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.11744n.21922 |
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