| 单词 | cap of dignity |
| 释义 | > as lemmascap of dignity g. cap of maintenance: (a) see maintenance n.; (b) A cap borne as one of the insignia of office before the sovereign of England at the coronation, and before mayors of some cities; (c) in Heraldry. A cap borne as a charge, or in place of a wreath, so cap of dignity, cap of estate, cap of honour, cap of state. cap of liberty or Phrygian bonnet at Phrygian adj. 3: the conical cap given in the Roman times to slaves on emancipation, and often used as a republican symbol. cap and bauble, cap and bells: the insignia of the fool or jester: cf. fool's cap n.1 cap and feather days: the days of childhood. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > representations of articles of clothing > [noun] > cap chapeau1523 cap of dignity1528 cap of maintenance1752 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > performance of jester or comedian > [noun] > jester's cap coxcomba1529 motley-scorn1600 cap and bauble1663 cap and bells1884 society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > [noun] > symbol of cap of liberty1709 tree of liberty1765 liberty pole1769 liberty tree1769 the world > people > person > child > [noun] > childhood childhoodOE childheadc1330 bairnheid1393 enfauncec1400 puerice1481 puerility1512 childage1548 childishness1597 leading-string1677 impuberty1785 cap and feather days1822 bairnhooda1835 child-life1841 pupillarity1846 tunic-hood1859 bread-and-butterhood1869 preadolescence1907 latency1910 puerilism1925 1528 W. Tyndale Obed. Christen Man f. xxxviijv For their laboure he [sc. the pope] geveth to some a rose, to a nother a cappe of mayntenaunce. c1600 Wriothesley's Chron. Eng. (1875) I. 2 A capp of mayntenance brought from Rome to the Kinge. 1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie vi. v. 269 This kind of Head-tire is called a Cap of dignity. a1640 P. Massinger City-Madam (1658) iv. i. 71 The Cap of Maintenance, and Citie Sword Born up in state before him. 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. iii. 244 For who without a Cap and Bauble..Would put it to a second proof. 1709 J. Addison Tatler No. 161. ⁋4 The Genius of a Common-wealth, with the Cap of Liberty on her Head. 1752 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. III. 191 The Earl of Surrey had re-assumed them, putting over them..a cap of maintenance purple with powdered furr. 1766 ‘M. A. Porny’ Elem. Heraldry (1787) Gloss. Chapeau..an antient Cap of Dignity, formerly worn by Nobility, being made of crimson Velvet in the outside, and lined with fur. 1822 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 5 Jan. 1607 Here I was got into the scenes of my cap-and-feather days! 1851 A. H. Layard Pop. Acct. Discov. Nineveh v. 97 The head-dress of the Persian monarchs..appears to have resembled the Phrygian bonnet, or the French Cap of Liberty. 1869 C. Boutell tr. J. P. Lacombe Arms & Armour x. 201 In this example [crested helm of King Richard II.] the lion-crest stands upon a ‘cap of dignity’. 1884 Punch 1 Mar. 100 Where last he shook the cap and bells. < as lemmas |
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