| 单词 |
muffetee |
| 释义 |
muffetee|mʌfɪˈtiː|
Also 8–9 muffatee, 9 muffitee, (-ies pl. Sc.), muffettee, muffattee, mufftee.
[App. irreg. f. muff n.2]
1. A muffler worn round the neck. Obs. exc. dial.
c1706Songs Costume (Percy Soc.) 206 Let 'em [sc. the men] mind their ruffles and muffetees. Ibid. 207 Scarlet and saxon-green muffetees [worn by men]. 1772Colman Prose Sev. Occas. (1787) III. 194 Nay lest Rouleaus themselves should soil their ruffles A muffatee each Pretty Master muffles. 1839Thackeray Leg. St. Sophia of Kioff, Warm her soldier lad she wrapt in Comforter and muffettee. a1890E. Waugh Tufts of Heather (1892) I. 25 He'd a thick, red wool muffatee reawnd his neck.
2. A worsted cuff worn on the wrist.
1749in A. M. Earle Costume Colonial Times (1894) 165 Men's fine Worsted Gloves and Muffetees. 1808–18Jamieson, Muffities,..mittens, either of leather or of knitted worsted, worn by old men. 1842Mrs. Stone W. Langshawe I. xii. 180 Her whole pride and delight..were centered in having her husband's hose, gloves, and muffatees—all her own knitted manufacture—in superlative order. 1844C. Mee Comp. Work-Table 82 New Cross-way Pattern for Gentlemen's Muffatees... For a muffatee, make a chain of 52 stitches [etc.]. 1865Cornh. Mag. XII. 700 She stood..with her red muffetees and her chilblainy hands clasped. 1878Yng. Ladies' Jrnl. Christmas No. 5 Here are a pair of scarlet muffatees for his wrists. 1902‘Mrs. Alexander’ Stronger than Love xii. 147, I have a little present for Uncle Garth—a pair of rabbit-wool mufftees. |
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