| 单词 |
Nithsdale |
| 释义 |
Nithsdale Now only Hist.|ˈnɪθsdeɪl| Also 8 Nithis-. [f. the name of the Countess of Nithsdale, who enabled her husband to escape from the Tower in 1716 by disguising him in a riding-hood.] A large riding-hood worn in the 18th c.
1719D'Urfey Pills II. 321 'Tis call'd a Nithisdale, since Fame Adorn'd a Countess with that Name. Whose Wit surmounting firmly stood All creatures with a Riding-hood. 1846Fairholt Costume I. 369 note, Such riding-hoods were thence called Nithsdales, and continued to be worn afterwards, but principally by elderly women. |

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