| 单词 |
shepster |
| 释义 |
shepster Obs. exc. dial.
Also 4 shappester, shuppester, shippestere, schipster, 5 shipster, shyppestere, pl. shappystrys 6 schepstarre (9 dial. shapster).
[ME. shepster (? OE. *scieppestre wk. fem.) fem. agent-noun to shippen (OE. scieppan) shape v.]
1. A female cutter-out of material; a dressmaker.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xiii. 331 Auenge me fele tymes other frete my-selue Wyth-inne, as a shepster shere. 1380Poll Tax in Rogers Oxf. City Docum. (1891) 13 De Alicia la Shuppester xijd. Ibid., De Johanna Shippestere xijd. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VII. 269 A schipster [muliercula] of þat citee. 14..Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 616/42 Tonstrix, a Shyppestere. c1515Cocke Lorell's B. 5 Gogle eyed tomson shepster of lyn. 1517–18in Archæologia XLVII. 311 To dyuerse shepsters for makyng of iij smockes for the seid quene. 1530Palsgr. 266/2 Schepstarre, lingiere. Ibid., Sheres for shepsters, forces. 1538Elyot Dict., Sarcinatrix, a shepster, or seamester. 1855Robinson Whitby Gloss. 167 Shapster,..a cutter out of apparel. A dress-maker.
†2. A female ‘shaper’ of destinies. Obs. rare.
14..Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 573/34–5 Cloto, on of thre shapsisterys vel shappystrys (vel anc⊇ destynyes). |
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