| 单词 |
cameline |
| 释义 |
▪ I. cameline, n.1|ˈkæməlɪn, ˈkæmlɪn|
Also 5 kamelyne, 5–6 camelyn(e, 6 camboline, 8 camlin, 9 camaline.
[a. OF. camelin, ad. med.L. camēlīnum, f. camēlīnus: see cameline a.]
a. orig. A kind of stuff made (or supposed to be made) of camel's hair: cf. camlet. Also the trade name of a modern fabric.
c1400Rom. Rose 7367 And dame Abstinence..Toke of a robe of kamelyne, And gan hir gracche [? graithe] as a bygynne. a1450Acts of Christ, MS. Addit. 11307, f. 97 (Halliw.) The cloth was ryche and ryȝt fyn, The chaumpe it was of red camelyn. c1450Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 569 Camelinus, camelyn. 1886Ripon Chron. 4 Sept. 2/6 (Advt.) We can suit every taste in Cameline Prints.
b. A garment made of this material.
1599Hakluyt Voy. II. 261 The Tallipoies go very strangely apparelled with one camboline or thinne cloth next to their body of a browne colour. 1727A. Hamilton New Acc. E. Ind. I. i. 15 A Gown..called a Camlin; it is made of Camels Hair, or of their Sheeps Wooll. 1837Lardner Steam Commun. w. India 114 Their dress consists of a camaline, bound round the waist by a leathern girdle.
▪ II. cameline, n.2|ˈkæməlaɪn|
[a. F. cameline (in mod.L. camelīna). Littré says ‘the sauce is doubtless named from the plant’. (It has been conjectured to be a corrupt form of chamælīnum, corresp. to Gr. *χαµαίλινον ‘dwarf flax’.)]
1. A genus of cruciferous plants; spec. the ‘Gold of pleasure’ (Camelina sativa). Also attrib.
1578Lyte Dodoens iv. xxxv. 494 The oyle of the seede of Cameline or Myagrum..doth cleare and polish the skinne from all roughnesse. 1598Florio, Miagro, the herbe Cameline. c1865in Circ. Sc. I. 105/2 Cameline or Dodder oil is extracted from the seeds of the Camelina sativa.
2. ‘A certaine daintie Italian sauce’ (Cotgr.).
c1420Liber Cocorum (1862) 30 Þis sawce fyne, Þat men calles camelyne.
▪ III. cameline, a.|ˈkæməlaɪn|
[ad. L. camēlīnus f. camēlus camel n.: see -ine1.]
Belonging to a camel, or to the camel tribe.
1865W. G. Palsgrave Arabia I. i. 39 The loss of his old master and cameline companions gives him no regret. |
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