单词 | woodwaxen |
释义 | woodwaxenn. The plant dyer's broom or greenweed, Genista tinctoria. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants used in dyeing > trees or shrubs yielding dyes > [noun] > dyer's greenweed woodwaxen1367 woodwax1570 greenweed1582 greenwood1776 Kendal green1822 dyer's green-weed1854 1367 Close Roll 41 Edw. III, m. 9 dorso Tercia pars tocius comoditatis..tam in denariis quam de subbosco & wodewexen. a1400 Old Usages Winchester in L. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 358 Euerych a cart y-lade wt mader, þt comeþ to selle, twey pans;..Also, y cart y-lade wt wodewexen to sale, fowre pans. 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 51 The Marigolde of Manardus is called Lysimachia... Woodwaxen [glastum]..groweth in Medowes and Pastures like to Brome. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball vi. viii. 667 Of base Broome or Woodwaxen. 1650 W. How Phytologia Britannica 46. 1829 J. L. Knapp Jrnl. Naturalist 77 Our poorer people..used to collect it by cart loads..; and the season of ‘woodwaxen’ was a little harvest to them:..the old woodwaxers tell me that [etc.]. 1861 S. Thomson Wanderings among Wild Flowers (rev. ed.) iii. 236. 1946 G. Stimpson Bk. about Thousand Things 50 It is supposed that the original green cloth made at Kendal by the Flemish weavers was colored with a dye obtained from the plant known as woadwaxen. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1367 |
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