单词 | cap of maintenance |
释义 | > as lemmascap of maintenance 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. cap (also †hat) of maintenance a. cap (also †hat) of maintenance, a cap or hat worn as a symbol of official dignity or high rank, or carried before a sovereign or a high dignitary on ceremonial occasions.The sense of maintenance here is obscure. Cf. the apparently equivalent cap of estate, cap of dignity (see cap n.1 4g). In quot. c1475 at sense 4 the hat of maintenance is worn by the members of the Holborn Quest probably as an indication of their patron's livery. Perhaps the earliest mention of the cap of maintenance as a symbol of royal authority is in quot. a1600 with reference to Edward IV; the cap is mentioned by contemporaries as having been given by the Pope three times to Henry VII and once to Henry VIII; in quot. 1551 it is referred to as one of the insignia of a prince. In the 16th cent. and later it appears chiefly as borne, together with the sword, before the Lord Mayor, and before the Sovereign at his or her coronation. It is still used at coronations and as part of the regalia for the ceremonial state opening of Parliament. A kind of cap, with two points like horns behind, borne in the arms of certain families either as a charge or in the place of a wreath, is described by heralds as a ‘cap of maintenance’, cf. quot. 1700. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > symbol of office or authority > [noun] > garment or dress > headgear hood1362 cap (also hat) of maintenancec1475 cocked hat1673 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > other cap (also hat) of maintenancec1475 hat1483 wishing-hat1600 cockle hat1603 porringer1623 poke1632 custard-cap1649 bonnet1675 muff-box1678 Caroline1687 Quaker1778 meat safe1782 balloon hat1784 gypsy hat1785 cabriolet1797 gypsy bonnet1803 Gypsy1806 Wellington hat1809 fan-tail-hat1810 umbrella hat1817 radical1828 caubeen1831 topi1835 montera1838 Petersham1845 squash hat1860 Moab1864 kiddy1865 flap-hat1866 Dolly Varden1872 brush-hata1877 potae1881 Pope's-hat1886 plateau1890 kelly1915 push-back1920 kiss-me-quick hat1963 pakul1982 tinfoil hat1982 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > cap > types of > denoting office or profession > other coif1399 cap (also hat) of maintenancec1475 calotte16.. biggin1639 Sister Dora1893 beret1948 c1475 Wisdom (Folger) (1969) 138 Here entrethe 6 jorours..wyth hodys abowt her nekys, hattys of meyntenance þervpon. 1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia ii. sig. Oiv Nor the prince hymselfe is not knowen from the other..by a crown or diademe or cappe of maintenaunce. 1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1759/2 They had two Cappes of maintenance likewise borne before them: wherof the Earle of Arundell bare the one, and the Earle of Shrewesburie the other. a1600 ( Rec. Bluemantle Pursuivant in C. L. Kingsford Eng. Hist. Lit. 15th Cent. (1913) 382 The King come into the parlement chamber in his parlement robes, and on his hed a cap of mayntenaunce. c1600 Wriothesley's Chron. Eng. (1875) I. 2 A capp of mayntenance brought from Rome to the Kinge. 1614 R. Tailor Hogge hath lost Pearle iii. E 3 b As if a females fauour could not be obteyn'd by any, but he that weares the Cap of maintenance. 1622 J. Taylor Very Merry Wherry-Ferry Voy. in Wks. (1630) ii. 13/2 A Sword, a Cap of maintenance, a Mace..Are borne before the Maior, and Aldermen. 1639 J. Mayne Citye Match i. iii Think, man, how it may In time..raise thee To the sword and cap of maintenance. a1640 P. Massinger City-Madam (1658) iv. i. 71 I see Lord Major written on his forehead; The Cap of Maintenance, and Citie Sword Born up in state before him. 1656 in L. F. W. Jewitt & W. H. St.J. Hope Corporation Plate (1895) I. p. lxxviii [Cromwell granted to Salisbury that the Sword~bearer should bear a sword and] weare a Cap of Mayntenance before the Maior of the said Citie for the tyme being. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 358 A high Red Velvet Cap, plaited at Top like a Cap of Maintenance. 1700 W. Congreve Way of World iii. i. 49 They [sc. a pair of horns] may prove a Cap of Maintenance to you still. 1714 B. Mandeville Fable Bees i. 136 If my Lord Mayor had nothing to defend himself but his great two handed Sword, the huge Cap of Maintenance, and his guilded Mace. 1736 F. Drake Eboracum i. vi. 223 The sword-bearer hath a hat of maintenance, which he wears only on Christmas day,..and on the high days of solemnity. 1808 W. Scott Marmion iv. vii. 192 His cap of maintenance was graced With the proud heron-plume. 1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. III. xx. 434 It became the rule for a duke to be created by the girding on of the sword, the bestowal of a golden rod, and the imposition of a cap of maintenance and circlet of gold. [Under Edward III; but the document cited has per impositionem cappæ.] 1894 Dict. National Biogr. XIV. 278/2 He supported Mary on Edward VI's death, and bore the second sword and the cap of maintenance at her coronation. 1972 N. Wilding & P. Laundy Encycl. Parl. (ed. 4) 508 Two peers [at the state opening of Parliament], one holding aloft the Sword of State, the other the red velvet Cap of Maintenance trimmed with ermine. 1998 R. Seitz Over Here iv. 245 The Leader of the House of Lords..carries the Cap of Maintenance at the tip of a long upright stick. < as lemmas |
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