cape

→ Dutch: cape

→ German: Cape
→ Estonian: keep

→ Japanese: ケープ (kēpu)

→ Norwegian: cape

→ Swedish: cape

→ Welsh: cêp

From French cape, from Old Occitan capa, from Late Latin cappa (“cape”). The second sense ("superhero") is metonymic from the fact that many superheroes wear capes. Likewise, the verb sense "defend, praise" alludes to the stereotypical depiction of superheroes wearing capes when they come to people's defense. (Compare caped crusader.) Doublet of capa and cappa.

Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.

1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:

A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders.

capote

for men, especially soldiers, against rain


cape

capen (definite singular)
caper (indefinite plural)
capene (definite plural)

From English cape, from French cape, from Late Latin cappa. Cognate with kappe (“cloak”), kåpe (“cloak”), kapp (“cape, headland”).

a cape (sleeveless garment worn by women, which covers the shoulders and arms)


cape

capen (definite singular)
capar (indefinite plural)
capane (definite plural)

From English cape, from French cape, from Late Latin cappa.


exfoliation

en-noun

exfoliation (countable and uncountable, plural exfoliations)

From Latin exfoliare (to remove leaves).

(cosmetics) The removal of a layer of dead skin, as in cosmetic preparation.

去角質 /去角质

the removal of a layer of skin, as in cosmetic preparation


fascia

Borrowed from Latin fascia (“a band, bandage, swathe”). Related to fascēs (“bundle of rods containing an axe with the blade projecting”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰask- (“bundle, band”). Cognate with fajita, fess, and fascism.

der

(ecclesiastical, fashion) A sash worn by certain members of the Catholic and Anglican churches.


fest

cy-noun

fest f (plural festiau or fests or festys, not mutable)

festiau (plural)
fests (plural)
festys (plural)


foundation

en-noun

foundation (countable and uncountable, plural foundations)

From Middle English foundacioun, fundacioun, from Old French fondacion, from Latin fundātiō (“founding, foundation”).

(cosmetics) Cosmetic cream roughly skin-colored, designed to make the face appear uniform in color and texture.


fret

English: fret

Either inherited from Old English *frǣt (compare ǣt) or a back-formation from freten.


girdle

From Middle English girdel, gerdel, gurdel, from Old English gyrdel, from Proto-West Germanic *gurdil, from Proto-Germanic *gurdilaz (“girdle, belt”), equivalent to gird + -le.
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Gäddel (“belt”), West Frisian gurdle, gurle, gurl (“belt”), Dutch gordel (“belt”), German Gürtel (“belt”), Yiddish גאַרטל (gartl, “belt”) (whence gartel, a doublet of girdle), Swedish gördel (“girdle”), Icelandic gyrðill (“girdle”).

inh

A garment used to hold the abdomen, hips, buttocks, and/or thighs in a particular shape.


gown

→ Bengali: গাউন (gaun)

→ Burmese: ဂါဝန် (gawan)

→ Japanese: ガウン

→ Korean: 가운 (gaun)

→ Malay: gaun

→ Punjabi: ਗਾਊਨ (gāūna)

→ Welsh: gown

From Middle English gowne, from Anglo-Norman goune, gune (“fur-trimmed coat, pelisse”), from Old French goune, from Late Latin gunna (“leather garment, a fur”). Cognate with Manx gooyn, Irish gúna.

toge

general term, especially Roman Antiquity


hater

enm-noun

hater (plural hateren or hatres or hater)

hateren (plural)
hatres (plural)
hater (plural)

A back-formed singular from Old English hæteru, a plurale tantum.


heed

desctree

English: head, heed, hed (obsolete), 'ead (UK, eye dialect)
→ Japanese: ヘッド (heddo)
Sranan Tongo: ede
Aukan: ede
Saramaccan: hédi

Geordie English: heed

Scots: heid

Yola: heade, haade, hade

From Old English hēafod, from Proto-West Germanic *haubud, from Proto-Germanic *haubudą (“head”).

The head (top portion of an animal):
A head-covering; headwear or hair.


ladder

nl-noun

ladder f (plural ladders, diminutive laddertje n)

ladders (plural)
laddertje (diminutive neuter)

desctree

Afrikaans: leer
→ Sotho: lere
→ Xhosa: ileli

From Middle Dutch ladere, from Old Frisian hladder, hledder, hleder, hlērde, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaidriju, from Proto-Germanic *hlaidrijō.

(clothing) a ladder, a run (length of unravelled fabric)


lap

From Middle English lappe, from Old English læppa (“skirt or flap of a garment”), from Proto-Germanic *lappô (“cloth; rag”), of uncertain origin, possibly Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang loosely”). Cognate with Dutch lap (“cloth; rag”), German Lappen (“cloth; lobe; flap”), Icelandic leppur (“rag; patch”).

der

The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.

поли

The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered.

փեշ

part that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down


lest

lesten (definite singular)
lester (indefinite plural)
lestene (definite plural)

From Old Norse leistr, from Proto-Germanic *laistaz.


lest

lesten (definite singular)
lestar (indefinite plural)
lestane (definite plural)

From Old Norse leistr m, from Proto-Germanic *laistaz m (“track, trace; footprint”), from Proto-Indo-European *lóystos, from the root *leys- (“to trace, track”). Akin to English last, Swedish läst, and German Leisten.


mother-of-pearl

en-noun

mother-of-pearl (countable and uncountable, plural mother-of-pearls)

/ˌmʌðəɹ əv ˈpɜː(ɹ)l/

Calque of Latin māter perlārum, with the first element perhaps connected in popular imagination with obsolete mother (“dregs”). Possibly referring to the fact that the nacre-lined shells are the belly (“mother”) in which pearls are produced.


mound

From earlier meaning "hedge, fence", from Middle English mound, mund (“protection, boundary, raised earthen rampart”), from Old English mund (“hand, hand of protection, protector, guardianship”), from Proto-West Germanic *mundu, from Proto-Germanic *mundō (“hand”), *munduz (“protection, patron”), from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂-nt-éh₂ (“the beckoning one”), from *(s)meh₂- (“to beckon”).
Cognate with Old Frisian mund (“guardianship”), Old High German munt (“hand, protection”) (German Mündel (“ward”), Vormund (“a guardian”)), Old Norse mund (“hand”) (Icelandic mund), Middle Dutch mond (“protection”), and possibly Latin manus (“hand”), Ancient Greek μάρη (márē, “hand”).

cog

An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown up for defense

A natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.

The pitcher was waiting at the mound.

(baseball) Elevated area of dirt upon which the pitcher stands to pitch.

A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmounted with a cross.


nacre

mother-of-pearl (the hard pearly inner layer of certain mollusk shells)


peak

→ Russian: пик (pik) (in час пик (čas pik))

From earlier peake, peek, peke, from Middle English pek (in place names), itself an alteration of pike, pyke, pyk (“a sharp point, pike”), from Old English pīc, piic (“a pike, needle, pin, peak, pinnacle”), from Proto-Germanic *pīkaz (“peak”). Cognate with Dutch piek (“pike, point, summit, peak”), Danish pik (“pike, peak”), Swedish pik (“pike, lance, point, peak”), Norwegian pik (“peak, summit”). More at pike.

(clothing, UK) visor (horizontal part of a cap sticking out in front and shading the wearer's eyes)


pearl

en-noun

pearl (countable and uncountable, plural pearls)

Horace
Jean Jannon
New Testament
Vergil
en:pearl
en:pearl (disambiguation)
en:pearl (typography)

From Middle English perle, from Old French perle of uncertain etymology. Probably via unattested Medieval Latin *pernula, from Latin perna (“haunch; a marine bivalve shaped like a leg of lamb”) but also derived from Medieval Latin perla, from Latin perula (“little bag”). Its typographic use follows the name given by Jean Jannon to the type used in his miniature editions of Vergil, Horace, & the New Testament in the 1620s, which were the smallest printed works to his time. Its surfing use derives from the supposed resemblance to pearl diving.

der

A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Round lustrous pearls are used in jewellery.

налкъвыт-налма́с

rounded shelly concretion produced by certain mollusks

(uncountable, typography, printing, dated) The size of type between diamond and agate, standardized as 5-point.

There is gold, and multitude of pearles: but a precious vessel the lips of knowledge.

1635, Douay Rheims Bible, Proverbs 20:15

Errol. Pearl three Escutcheons Ruby. / Elgin. Topaz a Saltier and Chief Ruby, on a Canton Pearl a Lyon Rampant Saphyr, which last is their paternal Coat; and the Field Topaz, and Saltier, and Chief Ruby, was the Arms of King Robert the Bruce, they altering the Field from Pearl (as he bore it) to Topaz.

1720, Francis Nichols, Rudiments of Honour, page 296:

The Field is Ruby, on a Bend Topaz, three Martlets Diamond. The Armes of the most Noble and Puissant Lord, Edward Brabazon, Earl of Meath, and Baron of Atherdee in the Kingdom of Ireland. His Lordship's Atchievements are Quarterly of sixteen Coats. 1. Brabazon, as above. 2. Diamond, on a Chevron between three Pickaxes Pearl, as many Mullets Ruby, by the Name of Mosley. 3. Saphire, ten Bezants, 4, 3, 2, 1, by the Bisset. 4. Pearl, on a Bend Diamond, nine Annulets conjoined in three Links Topaz.

1726, John Guillim, The Banner Display'd; Or, an Abridgment of Guillim, page 504:

(1) Pearl, a Cross, Ruby, with the Effigies of our Saviour thereon, Topaz, born in Memory of one of the Family's fighting against the Turks.

1754, John Lodge, The Peerage of Ireland; Or, a Genealogical History of the ..., page 71:

(heraldry) Argent, in blazoning by precious stones.


peel

en-verb

peel (third-person singular simple present peels, present participle peeling, simple past and past participle peeled)

peels (present singular third-person)
peeling (participle present)
peeled (participle past)
peeled (past)

From Middle English pelen, from Old English pilian and Old French peler, pellier; both from Latin pilō, pilāre (“to remove hair from, depilate”), from pilus (“hair”). Doublet of pill.

очи́стить

кожуру́, шелуху́

there's more than one way to peel an orange

The children peeled by the side of the lake and jumped in.

(intransitive) To remove one's clothing.


sett

A variant of set to distinguish various technical senses.

But it is quite sad to reflect that some 4,500 badger setts were already wiped out using poisoned gas between 1975 and 1982. When you consider that an average sett can contain up to 15 animals, parents and cubs, it is easy to imagine the scale of suffering involved.

2006, David Kavanagh, A Country Pillow Book, page 69:

The system of tunnels that is the home of a badger.

The Vestiarium gave setts for Lowland houses as well as Highland clans[…]and many families within the clans have their own setts to add to the clan tartans.[…]The clans and families are branching out with Dress and Hunting tartans, and the same sett—any sett—may be produced in dark "modern," lighter "ancient" or "muted" color schemes.

2012, J. Charles Thompson, “Introduction”, in James Grant, Scottish Tartans in Full Color:

The pattern of distinctive threads and yarns that make up the plaid of a Scottish tartan.

(weaving) The number of warp ends per inch in the cloth.

(weaving, England) The number of reeds or splits per inch – one half the number of ends per inch.

Very durable grey granite has been quarried near Aberdeen for more than 300 years, and blocked and dressed paving "setts," kerb and building stones, and monumental and other ornamental work of granite have long been exported from the district to all parts of the world.

1911, “Aberdeen”, in Hugh Chisholm, editor, The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information, 11th edition, volume I, Cambridge, Mass., New York, N.Y.: At the University Press, →OCLC, page 49:

Three horses trotted abreast, with the clatter of hoofs on the granite setts, and the yellow, uproarious machine jolted violently behind them, […]

1912, Joseph Conrad, chapter 7, in A Personal Record, New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Bros. Publishers, →OCLC:

The old market-square was not very large, a mere bare patch of granite setts, usually with a few fruit-stalls under a wall.

1920, D[avid] H[erbert Richards] Lawrence, chapter 26, in Women in Love, New York, N.Y.: Privately printed for subscribers only, →OCLC:

This path, which consists of some 60,000 setts laid directly into the earth, is perhaps the single most noteworthy 'feature' of the design, lending the whole conception a feeling of unity and coherence, enhancing the sense that one has been absorbed into both the place and the journey through it.

2013 November 16, Tim Richardson, “The JFK memorial at Runnymede is fit to stand forever: Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe's wonderful tribute to JFK at Runnymede hinges on the power of landscape [print edition: A memorial to JFK fit to stand forever]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening), archived from the original on 2015-07-03, page G8:

A small, square-cut piece of quarried stone used for paving and edging.


shell

From Middle English schelle, from Old English sċiell, from Proto-West Germanic *skallju, from Proto-Germanic *skaljō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to split, cleave”).
Compare West Frisian skyl (“peel, rind”), Dutch schil (“peel, skin, rink”), Low German Schell (“shell, scale”), Irish scelec (“pebble”), Latin silex (“pebble, flint”), siliqua (“pod”), Old Church Slavonic сколика (skolika, “shell”). More at shale.
Doublet of sheal.
* (computing): From being viewed as an outer layer of interface between the user and the operating-system internals.

cog

A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.

blusa

garment with short or no sleeves that often fastens in the rear


silhouette

Borrowed from French silhouette, after Étienne de Silhouette (1709–1767), French Controller of Finances. De Silhouette's penny-pinching led to the French term à la Silhouette, applied to things perceived as cheap or austere, such as an outline filled only with black.
Étienne de Silhouette's surname is, in turn, gallicized Basque. It derives from from Ziloeta or Zilhoeta, modern Basque Zulueta, from the local plural (see -ak) stem of zulo (“hole, cave”).

A-line is a classic silhouette for dresses and skirts.

(fashion) The outline of a garment as it appears on the wearer.


skate

Back-formation from Dutch schaats, from Middle Dutch schāetse, from Old Northern French escache (“a stilt, trestle”) (compare French échasse and English scatch), from a Germanic language, perhaps Frankish *skakkjā (“stilt”, literally “thing that moves”), related to *skakan (“to shake, swing”).


skimp

While presenting a rundown of the sexiest soap stars in the world in this week's ZOO, Hollyoaks' Gemma Atkinson very kindly stripped down to her skimps herself.


slap

en-noun

slap (countable and uncountable, plural slaps)

From Middle English slappen, of uncertain origin, possibly imitative. Compare Low German Slappe (“slap”), whence also German Schlappe (“defeat”). Compare also Italian sleppa (“slap”).

onomatopoeic

imitative

Well, she schlumphed her Vera down the screech at a rate of knots, zhooshed up the riah, checked the slap in the mirror behind the bar, straightened up one ogle fake riah that had come adrift, and bold as brass orderlied over as fast as she could manage in those bats and, in her best lips, asked, if she could parker the omi a bevvy.

1997, James Gardiner, Who's a Pretty Boy Then?, page 123:

If you had too much slap on when you went out . . . your mates say too much slap on your ecaf. Yeah. Oh really girl? Yes . . . Go in the lavs here and have a look.

Quoted in 2006, Matt Houlbrook, Queer London (page 151)


spare

From Middle English spare, spar, from Old English spær (“sparing, scant”), from Proto-Germanic *sparaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sph₁rós, from the root *speh₁-.
Compare Dutch spaar(zaam), German spar(sam) and spär(lich), Swedish spar(sam), Icelandic sparr (“sparing”); also Latin (pro)sperus (“lucky”), Old Church Slavonic споръ (sporŭ, “plentiful”), Albanian shperr (“earn money”), Persian سپار (sepâr, “entrust; deposit”), Ancient Greek σπαρνός (sparnós, “rare”), Sanskrit स्फिर (sphirá, “thick”).

cog

An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket.


toupee

1727, from French toupet (“small tuft of hair, forelock”), from Middle French toupet (“small tuft of hair, forelock”), from Old French toupet (“small tuft of hair, forelock”), diminutive of toupe, top (“tuft of hair”), from Frankish *topp (“summit, crest, tuft of hair”), from Proto-Germanic *tuppaz (“summit, crest, tuft of hair”). Cognate with Old Dutch topp (“top”) (Dutch top), Old Frisian top (“summit, crest, tuft of hair”), Old English top (“summit, crest, tuft of hair”), Old High German zopf (“end, summit, tuft of hair”), Old Norse toppr (“tuft of hair, forelock”). More at top.

cog

A wig of false hair worn to cover a bald spot, especially as worn by a man.

Her powdered hair is turned backward over a toupee.

1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss:

(obsolete) A small wig, or a toppiece of a wig, worn by both sexes.


track

→ Kashubian: trak (Canada)

From Middle English trak, tracke, from Old French trac (“track of horses, trail, trace”), of uncertain origin. Likely from a Germanic source, either Old Norse traðk ("a track; path; trodden spot"; > Icelandic traðk (“a track; path; tread”), Faroese traðk (“track; tracks”), Norwegian tråkke (“to trample”)) or from Middle Dutch trec, *trac, treck ("line, row, series"; > Dutch trek (“a draft; feature; trait; groove; expedition”)), German Low German Treck (“a draught; movement; passage; flow”). See tread, trek.

gloss

"line, row, series"; > Dutch <i class="Latn mention" lang="nl">trek</i> (“a draft; feature; trait; groove; expedition”)

cog

(fashion, colloquial) Clipping of trackshoe.


veil

→ Japanese: ベール (bēru)

→ Korean: 베일 (beil)

From Middle English veil, veyl, from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French veil (“sail, veil, shroud”) (Francien Old French voil, French voile), Latin vēlum (“cloth, covering”). Displaced Middle English scleire, scleyre, sleyre, slyre (“veil”) (compare German Schleier). Doublet of velum and voile.

der

The veil of the temple was rent in twain.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 27:51:

She, as a veil down to the slender waist, / Her unadorned golden tresses wore.

1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

Something hung up or spread out to hide or protect the face, or hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crepe, or similar diaphanous material.

The genus Amanita has both a volva and a veil; the spores are white, and the stem is easily separable from the cap.

1903, George Francis Atkinson, chapter VI, in Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc., 2nd edition, New York: Henry Holt:

(mycology) A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; a velum.

An obscuration of the clearness of the tones in pronunciation.

"I have heard most furious bigots talking through the veil." "So have I, for that matter," said Malone, "and in this very room."

1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

(figurative, parapsychology) That which separates the living and the spirit world.


wreath

From Middle English wreth, wrethe (“coiled or rounded shape; decorative garland, wreath; chaplet, crown; ring”, noun), from Old English wrǣd, wrǣð, wriþa (“bandage”), from Proto-West Germanic *wrīþan (“to twist; to weave”), from Proto-Germanic *wrīþaną (“to twist; to weave”), from Proto-Indo-European *wreyt- (“to twist”). Doublet of wreathe and writhe.

inh

a wreath of smoke a wreath of clouds

The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.

1892, James Yoxall, chapter 5, in The Lonely Pyramid: A Tale of Adventures, being the Strange Experiences of Roy LeFevre in the Desert during the Year 1884, London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dublin: Blackie and Son, →OCLC:

Something twisted, intertwined, or curled.

So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor. 'Twas a dismal sort of place, with hair wreaths, and wax fruit, and tin lambrekins, and land knows what all.

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

An ornamental circular band made, for example, of plaited flowers and leaves, and used as decoration; a garland or chaplet, especially one given to a victor.

w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909

(heraldry) An appendage to the shield, placed above it, and supporting the crest; an orle, a torse. It generally represents a twist of two cords of silk, one tinctured like the principal metal, the other like the principal color in the coat of arms.


wreath

en-verb

wreath (third-person singular simple present wreaths, present participle wreathing, simple past and past participle wreathed)

wreaths (present singular third-person)
wreathing (participle present)
wreathed (participle past)
wreathed (past)

Sale) or Salovv a kind of vvoodde like VVyllovv, fit to vvreath and bynde in leapes to catch fiſh vvithall.

1579, E. K., “[December. Ægloga Duodecima.] Glosse.”, in Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 51, verso:

[T]o wreſt the will of man, or to wreath his hearte to our humours, it is not in the compaſſe of Arte, but in the power of the moſt higheſt.

1580, Iohn Lyly [i.e., John Lyly], Euphues and His England. […], London: […] [Thomas East] for Gabriell Cawood, […], →OCLC, folio 63, recto:

[F]or griefe his hart did grate, / And from ſo heauie ſight his head did vvreath, / Accuſing fortune, and too cruell fate, / VVhich plonged had faire Lady in ſo vvretched ſtate.

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 56, page 203:

[Y]ou haue learn'd (like Sir Protheus) to vvreath your Armes like a Male-content: […]

c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 23, column 2:

The bitings of lyons and ſuch like beaſtes are ſo dangerous, in regard of their ſtrength and fierceneſſe, for they doe not onely bite, but alſo vvreath and teare the vvounds vvhich they make vvith their teeth, or nailes: […]

1607, Conradus Gesnerus [i.e., Conrad Gessner], Edward Topsell, “Of the Lyon. [The Medicines of the Lyon.]”, in The Historie of Foure-footed Beastes. […], London: […] William Iaggard, →OCLC, page 487:

[T]he Beards of vvilde Oates, and thoſe of divers other vvilde Plants; […] almoſt continually vvreath and unvvreath themſelves according to, even, the light variations of the temperature of the ambient Air.

1659 December 30 (date written), Robert Boyle, “A Digression Containing Some Doubts Touching Respiration”, in New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects, (Made, for the Most Part, in a New Pneumatical Engine) […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] H[enry] Hall, printer to the University, for Tho[mas] Robinson, published 1660, →OCLC, page 379:

And forasmuch as by their frequent passing under the Roller, they [blankets for printing] are squezed together and become stubburne, and churlish: you shall doe well to spread and extend them at night; and the morning (ere you employ them) to wreath, rub, slap and smooth them till you have rendred them very soft and gentle: […]

1662 May 24 (date delivered; Gregorian calendar), J[ohn] Evelyn, “Of the Other Necessaries, Instruments and Appurtenances Belonging to the Press; and Touched onely in the Precedent Chapter”, in C[harles] F[rancis] Bell, editor, Evelyn’s Sculptura with the Unpublished Second Part, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press [by Horace Hart […]], published 1906, →OCLC, book II (The Construction of the Rowling Press, and Manner how to Worke off the Plates), page 15:

[W]ith Laurels vvreath your poſts, / And ſtrovv vvith Flovv'rs the Pavement; […]

1677 (first performance), John Dryden, All for Love: Or, The World Well Lost. A Tragedy, […], [London]: […] Tho[mas] Newcomb, for Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, →OCLC, Act I, page 5:

But hovv ſhould I avoid to be her ſlave, / VVhoſe ſubtle art inviſibly can vvreath / My fetters of the very air I breathe?

a. 1679 (date written), Andrew Marvell, “[Poems on Several Occasions.] The Fair Singer.”, in The Works of Andrew Marvell, Esq.: Poetical, Controversial, and Political, […], volume III, London: […] Henry Baldwin, and sold by [James] Dodsley, […], published 1776, →OCLC, stanza II, page 246:

Death's Harbingers, lye latent in the Draught: / And in the Flovv'rs that vvreath the ſparkling Bovvl, / Fell Adders hiſs, and poys'nous Serpents roll.

1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Solomon on the Vanity of the World. A Poem in Three Books.”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], →OCLC, book II (Pleasure), page 436:

Eſcap'd the flaſhing of the noontide hours / VVith one freſh garland of Pierian flovvers / (Ere from thy zephyr-haunted brink I turn) / My languid hand ſhall vvreath thy moſſy urn.

1796, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Lines to a Beautiful Spring in a Village”, in Poems on Various Subjects, London: […] G[eorge] G[eorge] and J[ohn] Robinsons, and J[oseph] Cottle, […], →OCLC, page 28:

Tho' wit may flash from fluent lips, and mirth distract the breast, / Through midnight hours that yield no more their former hope of rest; / 'Tis but as ivy-leaves around the ruin'd turret wreath, / All green and wildly fresh without, but worn and grey beneath.

1816, Lord Byron, “Stanzas for Music”, in Poems, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […]; by W[illiam] Bulmer and Co. […], →OCLC, stanza 4, page 18:


formal

en-noun

formal (countable and uncountable, plural formals)

From Middle English formel, borrowed from Old French formel, from Latin fōrmālis, from fōrma (“form”); equivalent to form + -al.

Well, I open up the door / And much to my surprise / The girls were wearin' formals / And the boys were wearin' ties

1965, Shadow Morton (lyrics and music), “Sophisticated Boom Boom”, performed by The Shangri-Las:


capote

Borrowed from French capote. Doublet of capot and kaput.

[…] pensive o’er his scatter’d flock,
The little shepherd in his white capote
Doth lean his boyish form along the rock,

1812, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, London: John Murray, Canto 2, stanza 51, p. 86:

It was said that the Rabbi of Kotsk had been in Favor of European dress, but the Rabbi of Gur and his followers had insisted on the Russian capote, trousers tucked into the boots, a kerchief around the neck, and the Russian cap adapted to the native style.

1967, Isaac Bashevis Singer, translated by Joseph Singer and Elaine Gottlieb, The Manor, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Part 3, Chapter 26, p. 359:

The fourth member of our party round the camp-fire that night was a powerfully built trapper, partly French by blood,who wore a gayly colored capote, or blanket-coat, a greasy fur cap, and moccasins.

1888 October, Theodore Roosevelt, Frontier Types, The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine:

(historical) A coat made from a blanket, worn by 19th-century Canadian woodsmen.

A discreet visitor on such occasions advances straight to the window or the glass: Emily did the latter; and five minutes of contemplation ascertained the fact that her capote would endure a slight tendency to the left.

1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 123:

Tied round her head with a large bow and flying blue ribbons under the chin, was a fragile flat Capote like a baby’s bonnet, which allowed her hair to escape in front and her great chignon behind.

1908, Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives’ Tale, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Book 3, Chapter 2, page 308:

(historical) A close-fitting woman's bonnet.


capote

Borrowed from French capot. Doublet of capó.


khakis

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Khaki-coloured/colored cotton trousers (pants).

(military) A khaki uniform of pants (trousers) or shorts, shirt, and hat or other head covering such as a turban.


colonia

From agua de Colonia, from French eau de Cologne, ultimately from Latin Colōnia Claudia Āra Agrippīnēnsium, Cologne, the current city in Germany, and cognate of English colony.


tux

After a load of photos and what-not, we descend the world's longest escalator, which are called that even as they de-escalate, and in we go to the main forum, a high ceilinged hall, full of circular cloth-draped, numbered tables, a stage at the front, the letters GQ, 12-foot high in neon at the back; this aside, though, neon forever the moniker of trash, this is a posh do, in an opera house full of folk in tuxes.

2013 September 13, Russell Brand, The Guardian:


hoodie

→ German: Hoodie

From hood + -ie (diminutive suffix). In sense “person wearing a hoodie”, influenced by sense -ie (“person associated with suffixed noun, often derogatory”); compare townie.

You can buy hoodies on the cheap in summer.

A sweatshirt with an integral hood and, sometimes, a large kangaroo pocket at the front.

толсто́вка

с капюшо́ном

балахо́н

с капюшо́ном

เสื้อฮู้ด

S̄eụ̄̂x ḥū̂ d

David Cameron will completely re-engineer the Conservatives' image on crime this week with a remarkable speech calling for more understanding of 'hoodies' and criticising what he calls short-term solutions to curb youth crime such as anti-social behaviour orders and curfews.

2006 July 9, Gaby Hinsliff, “Cameron softens crime image in 'hug a hoodie' call”, in The Guardian:

En route, we dropped by the home of Lips — one of the very few gang members who still lived with his mother — to pick up some clothes for Tuggy. There, we discussed which pair of trainers to bring him — no small decision, as the soul of the hoodie resides in his trainers.

2012 June 26, Harriet Sergeant, “The only place my hoodie friend felt at home? Prison”, in Mail Online:

(British, slang, often derogatory) A young person wearing such a sweatshirt, usually a male, stereotypically associated with antisocial behaviour.

Corvus cornix
Corvus cornix#Translingual


mantilla

Borrowed from Spanish mantilla (“large veil; small cape”), from manta (“blanket, cloth, cloth banner”) + -illa (diminutive).

suffix

Carolina Coronado
Federico de Madrazo
Madrid
Museo del Prado

The Duchess of Alba wrapped herself in a mantilla coat, asked her guest to take a chair in the middle of the patio and placed herself three steps behind him in the shade of a magnolia.

1980 October, New Writing and Writers, volume 18, London: John Calder (Publishers) Ltd., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 50:

A woman's light cloak or cape made of silk, velvet, lace, or other material.


mantilla

rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines


labradorite

en-noun

labradorite (usually uncountable, plural labradorites)

/ˈlæb.ɹəˌdɔɹˌaɪt/

/ˌlæb.ɹəˈdɔɹˌaɪt/

(mineralogy) A plagioclase feldspar mineral, calcium sodium aluminum silicate, often very coarsely crystalline, used as a decorative stone for carvings and building façades.


quartz

quartz (countable and uncountable, plural quartzes)

→ Malay: kuarza

From German Quarz, from Middle High German (Central East German) quarz, twarc, from a West Slavic language [compare Polish twardy (“hard”), Czech tvrdý (“hard”)], from Proto-Slavic *tvьrdъ.

The telescope and collimator have each an object-glass consisting of a single lens of quartz 1½ inch diameter and a focal length of 18½ inches for the sodium yellow light, but not more than 16 inches for the highest rays measured.

1883, George Downing Liveing, James Dewar, “On the Ultra-Violet Spectra of the Elements”, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 174, Barrison and Sons, part I, page 188:

Subsequently, the old Malay brought him the present specimen in a state of torpidity, telling him he had found it in a cavity of the quartz reef.

1892 April, Armiger Barczinsky, “The Golden Snail”, in Sylvanus Urban (pseudonym of Edward Cave), editor, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 272, page 331:

My meat eats me. Who waits at the gate? / Mother of quartz, your words writhe into my ear. / Renew the light, lewd whisper.

1948, Theodore Roethke, “The Shape of the Fire”, in The Lost Son and Other Poems; republished in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, 1975, →ISBN, page 62:

(mineralogy) The most abundant mineral on the earth's surface, of chemical composition silicon dioxide, SiO₂. It occurs in a variety of forms, both crystalline and amorphous. Found in every environment.


quartz

→ Catalan: quars

Borrowed from German Quarz, from a West Slavic language, from Proto-Slavic *tvьrdъ (“hard”).


morganite

morganite (countable and uncountable, plural morganites)

(mineralogy) A gemstone of pegmatite deposits. Morganite is a transparent pink variety of beryl.


dieselpunk

Coordinate term: steampunk

In other words, steampunk explores adjustment to an industrial culture from the opposite direction to cyberpunk -- but has very much the same agenda. Me, I'm trying to write dieselpunk ...

2002 November 20, Charlie Stross, “Re: What "steampunk" genre?”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet):

[…] post-apocalyptic dieselpunk action adventure […]

2007, Sean Demory, quoted in Brian McTavish, "Kansas City writer, artist publish digital comic book for cell phones", in The Kansas City Star, 2007 July 25, page F3

BioShock isn't steampunk, it's dieselpunk.

2010 March 19, Teresa Lott, “Re: I hate steampunk...”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet):

A genre of science fiction and art that combines fictional retrofuturistic elements with the technology, culture, and aesthetics of the period of history beginning in the interbellum between World War I and World War II and ending around the 1950s (known as the "diesel era" within the dieselpunk community).


pork pie

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titfer

And one of the greatest exponents of rhyming slang I ever knew once addressed this question to me: "Tell me, is my titfer on solicitor's fee?" Now I got "titfer" immediately, of course. The question had something to do with his hat. But after trying for fifteen minutes to work out what "solicitor's fee" meant, I had to give up. Almost compassionately the expert explained. A solicitor (attorney) usually charges six shillings and eightpence, or colloquially speaking, six and eight. Six and eight is rhyming slang for straight. So all he wanted to know was if his hat were on straight.

1946, C[ecil] V[incent] R[aymond] Thompson, chapter 3, in How to Like an Englishman, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →OCLC, pages 50–51:

"Thee's a right rotten skinflint, Barnaby," Victoria hissed at her husband. "Mabel and me're going to have new folderols if it costs thee thy whole company by God! And we wants titfers like her's by God!" / "Wot?" / "Yes wot! Titfers—hats!"

1993, James Clavell, James Clavell’s Gai-Jin: A Novel of Japan, New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →ISBN, pages 265–266:

Words like ‘rough’ and ‘rude’ were used instead, especially by a stuck-up girl called Jessica, whose mother was a milliner. A posh milliner at that – so Jessica said. We didn’t let on that we were ignorant enough not to know what she was talking about. That would have made her swankier than ever. But Auntie Viv came to the rescue when she told me that it meant a lady who made hats. When I told this to Winnie she laughed and went straight up to Jessica and said ‘Ow’s yer muvver gettin’ on wiv the titfers, eh?’ / Jessica obviously knew that ‘titfers’ was a Cockney word for hats. Her face went all mean and white.

1993 November, Hilda Hollingsworth, chapter 5, in Places of Greater Safety, Berkeley, Calif.: Zenobia Press, →ISBN, page 38:

On this trip I heard him say something that I had not heard for a long time. He always called his hat a Titfer, and I know this is part of the cockney slang phrase "Tit for Tat." This slang is where the last syllable [tat], rhymes with the word that is being talked about, in this case, it's the word hat. The slang has been around for many years.

2012, David Chance, “Back to Canada”, in Around the World in 80 Years, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 562:

"We understand that it's New Year's Eve, sir. But we have had several complaints from local residents, and we have been asked to come and kindly request that you turn your music down." / "Not a problem Occifers," I say, because there were two of them. Lulu has appeared in the doorway and wants to flirt with the Occifers and try on their titfers. They smile at her but don't say anything.

2015 July 30, Oliver Merlin, “Great Party”, in Clapham High Way, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu Publishing Services, →ISBN, page 194:

Tommy remembered Uncle Johnny standing up from his chair in the snug and settling his titfer on his head, what made him look as if he were a bookie.

2016, Alan Moore, “Hark! The Glad Sound!”, in Jerusalem: A Novel, New York, N.Y., London: Liveright Publishing Corporation, →ISBN, page 330:

Cockney rhyming slang
Cockney rhyming slang


miniskirt

People who are “switched-on” and can twitch to prove it. And now–the latest—the chest toupee and the mini-skirt. […] For the benefit of those who are neither switched-on nor gear, the mini-skirt is actually a semi-skirt.

1966 May 29, Russell Baker, “Observer: London Is I-Cumen In, Sing Cu-Cu”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A short skirt with its hemline well above the knees, generally at mid-thigh level.


loose-fitting

en-adj

loose-fitting (comparative looser-fitting, superlative loosest-fitting)

looser-fitting (comparative)
loosest-fitting (superlative)


길

두루마기 두루마기#Korean

(clothing) the gil, the large body section of the upper garment in traditional clothing such as the 저고리 (jeogori) or 두루마기 (durumagi)


tai

tai class IX (canonical)
tai class X (plural)


shift

en-verb

shift (third-person singular simple present shifts, present participle shifting, simple past and past participle shifted)

shifts (present singular third-person)
shifting (participle present)
shifted (participle past)
shifted (past)

From Middle English schiften, from Old English sċiftan (“to divide, separate into shares; appoint, ordain; arrange, organise”), from Proto-Germanic *skiftijaną, *skiptijaną, from earlier *skipatjaną (“to organise, put in order”), from Proto-Indo-European *skeyb- (“to separate, divide, part”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to cut, divide, separate, part”). Cognate with Scots schift, skift (“to shift”), West Frisian skifte, skiftsje (“to sort”), Dutch schiften (“to sort, screen, winnow, part”), German schichten (“to stack, layer”), Swedish skifta (“to shift, change, exchange, vary”), Norwegian skifte (“to shift”), Icelandic skipta (“to switch”). See ship.

cog

'Tis very good to wash his hands and face often, to shift his clothes, to have fair linen about him, to be decently and comely attired […].

(obsolete, transitive) To change (clothes, especially underwear).

As it were, to ride day and night; and […] not to have patience to shift me.

c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene v]:

The first thing he did was to secure a convenient lodging at the inn where he dined; then he shifted himself, and according to the direction he had received, went to the house of Mrs. Gauntlet […].

1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 21, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume I, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:

(obsolete, transitive, reflexive) To change (someone's) clothes; sometimes specifically, to change underwear.


mente

menték (plural)
mente (nominative singular)
menték (nominative plural)
mentét (accusative singular)
mentéket (accusative plural)
mentének (dative singular)
mentéknek (dative plural)
mentével (instrumental singular)
mentékkel (instrumental plural)
mentéért (causal-final singular)
mentékért (causal-final plural)
mentévé (singular translative)
mentékké (plural translative)
mentéig (singular terminative)
mentékig (plural terminative)
menteként (essive-formal singular)
mentékként (essive-formal plural)
mentéül (essive-modal singular)
mentében (inessive singular)
mentékben (inessive plural)
mentén (singular superessive)
mentéken (plural superessive)
menténél (adessive singular)
mentéknél (adessive plural)
mentébe (illative singular)
mentékbe (illative plural)
mentére (singular sublative)
mentékre (plural sublative)
mentéhez (allative singular)
mentékhez (allative plural)
mentéből (elative singular)
mentékből (elative plural)
mentéről (delative singular)
mentékről (delative plural)
mentétől (ablative singular)
mentéktől (ablative plural)
mentéé (singular)
mentéké (plural)
mentééi (singular)
mentékéi (plural)
mentém (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
mentéim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
mentéd (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
mentéid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
mentéje (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
mentéi (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
menténk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
mentéink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
mentétek (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
mentéitek (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
mentéjük (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
mentéik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)


ametista

From Latin amethystus, from Ancient Greek ἀμέθυστος (améthustos, “remedy against inebriation”), from ἀ- (a-) (privative prefix) + μεθύειν (methúein, “to become inebriated”).


ametista

Borrowed from Latin amethystus f, from Ancient Greek ἀμέθυστος (améthustos, “not drunk”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + μεθύω (methúō, “to be drunk”), from μέθυ (méthu, “wine”).


dressing gown

/ˈdɹɛsɪŋ ɡaʊn/

After about ten minutes he got up, and, throwing on an elaborate dressing-gown of silk-embroidered cashmere wool, passed into the onyx-paved bathroom.

1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter VIII, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 138:

I was feeling just as I had felt in the old Malvern House epoch when I used to sneak down to [the headmaster]'s study at dead of night in quest of the biscuits he kept there in a tin on his desk, and there came back to me the memory of the occasion when, not letting a twig snap beneath my feet, I had entered his sanctum in pyjamas and a dressing-gown, to find him seated in his chair, tucking into the biscuits himself. [...] She was looking more like Sherlock Holmes than ever. Slap a dressing-gown on her and give her a violin, and she could have walked straight into Baker Street and no questions asked.

1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “VII AND XX”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

(UK, Ireland) An item of clothing often made from cotton or another absorbent material, in the form of a long open robe with a belt to tie it around the middle and fasten it securely; often worn over pyjamas.


torpedo

* Borrowed from Latin torpēdō (“a torpedo fish; numbness, torpidity, electric ray”), from torpeō (“I am stiff, numb, torpid; I am astounded; I am inactive”) + -ēdō (noun suffix), from Proto-Indo-European *ster- (“stiff”). In the military sense coined by Robert Fulton in 1805. Cognate with Old English steorfan (“to die”), Ancient Greek στερεός (stereós, “solid”), Lithuanian tirpstu (“to become rigid”), Old Church Slavonic трупети (trupeti).
* (type of car): From 1908, after "the Torpedo", a car designed by Captain Theo Masui.

cog

Faire Queene, forbeare to angle for the fiſh, / Which being caught, ſtrikes him that takes it dead, / I meane that vile Torpedo, Gaueſton, / That now I hope flotes on the Iriſh Seas

1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act I]:

The man has been changed into an artificial monster by the station in which he is born, and the consequent homage that benumbed his faculties like the torpedo's touch […].

1790, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men:

"A childhood Misadventure with a Torpedo," Dixon, with a brief move of his head toward Mason, confides, "— thus his Sensitivity at all References to the,"— whispering,— "electrickal!"

1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 286:

(zoology) An electric ray of the genus Torpedo.

(slang) A professional gunman or assassin.

(historical) An automobile with a streamlined profile and a folding or detachable soft top, and having the hood or bonnet line raised to be level with the car's waistline, resulting in a straight beltline from front to back.


لحية

ar-noun

لِحْيَة • (liḥya) f (plural لِحًى (liḥan))

لِحْيَة (canonical)
liḥya (romanization)
لِحًى (plural)
لِحْيَة (ar-infl-a indefinite informal singular triptote)
اللِّحْيَة (ar-infl-a definite informal singular triptote)
لِحْيَة (ar-infl-a construct informal singular triptote)
لِحْيَةٌ (ar-infl-a indefinite nominative singular triptote)
اللِّحْيَةُ (ar-infl-a definite nominative singular triptote)
لِحْيَةُ (ar-infl-a construct nominative singular triptote)
لِحْيَةً (accusative ar-infl-a indefinite singular triptote)
اللِّحْيَةَ (accusative ar-infl-a definite singular triptote)
لِحْيَةَ (accusative ar-infl-a construct singular triptote)
لِحْيَةٍ (ar-infl-a genitive indefinite singular triptote)
اللِّحْيَةِ (ar-infl-a definite genitive singular triptote)
لِحْيَةِ (ar-infl-a construct genitive singular triptote)
لِحْيَتَيْن (ar-infl-a dual indefinite informal singular triptote)
اللِّحْيَتَيْن (ar-infl-a definite dual informal singular triptote)
لِحْيَتَيْ (ar-infl-a construct dual informal singular triptote)
لِحْيَتَانِ (ar-infl-a dual indefinite nominative singular triptote)
اللِّحْيَتَانِ (ar-infl-a definite dual nominative singular triptote)
لِحْيَتَا (ar-infl-a construct dual nominative singular triptote)
لِحْيَتَيْنِ (accusative ar-infl-a dual indefinite singular triptote)
اللِّحْيَتَيْنِ (accusative ar-infl-a definite dual singular triptote)
لِحْيَتَيْ (accusative ar-infl-a construct dual singular triptote)
لِحْيَتَيْنِ (ar-infl-a dual genitive indefinite singular triptote)
اللِّحْيَتَيْنِ (ar-infl-a definite dual genitive singular triptote)
لِحْيَتَيْ (ar-infl-a construct dual genitive singular triptote)
لِحَى (ar-infl-an-maksura broken-form indefinite informal plural)
اللِّحَى (ar-infl-an-maksura broken-form definite informal plural)
لِحَى (ar-infl-an-maksura broken-form construct informal plural)
لِحًى (ar-infl-an-maksura broken-form indefinite nominative plural)
اللِّحَى (ar-infl-an-maksura broken-form definite nominative plural)
لِحَى (ar-infl-an-maksura broken-form construct nominative plural)
لِحًى (accusative ar-infl-an-maksura broken-form indefinite plural)
اللِّحَى (accusative ar-infl-an-maksura broken-form definite plural)
لِحَى (accusative ar-infl-an-maksura broken-form construct plural)
لِحًى (ar-infl-an-maksura broken-form genitive indefinite plural)
اللِّحَى (ar-infl-an-maksura broken-form definite genitive plural)
لِحَى (ar-infl-an-maksura broken-form construct genitive plural)


hood

From Middle English hood, hod, from Old English hōd, from Proto-Germanic *hōdaz (cognate with Saterland Frisian Houd, West Frisian/Dutch hoed, German Low German Hood, German Hut). Cognate with Proto-Iranian *xawdaH (“hat”) (compare Avestan 𐬑𐬂𐬛𐬀 (xåda), Old Persian 𐎧𐎢𐎭 (x-u-d /xaudā/)), from Proto-Indo-European *kadʰ- (“to cover”). More at hat.

kapuç

covering for the head attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak

(automotive, chiefly US, Canada) The hinged cover over the engine of a motor vehicle, known as a bonnet in other countries.

(ophiology) An expansion on the sides of the neck typical for many elapids e.g. the Egyptian cobra (Naja haje) and Indian cobra (Naja naja).

huppu

expansion on the sides of the neck typical for many elapids e.g. the Egyptian cobra and Indian cobra

Platysma myoides […] which sends attenuated fibres and slips to the gular region of the hood and is lost dorsad in the fascia covering the trapezius but acquires thickness over the sternum and cervix. Thyromandibularis […] Two distinct muscles may bear this name, an externus and an internus. The latter rises by two slips from about the middle of the inner surface of the mandible and is inserted into the middle of the inner side of the thyrohyal. The greatly elongated thyrobyal passes between the two layers of integument constituting the hood, at its middle fold, and so forms a “yard” to which the lower half of the hood is bent. This inner division of the Thyromandibularis being an adductor of the bone, is the chief agent in lowering the hood and bracing its lower moiety to the side of the neck—it is antagonised by the greater part of the outer division which rises fleshy immediately behind the inner one, but nearly on the lower edge of the jaw, the origin of the mylohyoideus being between them. It immediately divides into two superposed fascicles, the deeper one being inserted into the lower surface of the thyrohyal, a little behind the insertion of the inner division—the other sub division is inserted posteriorly to the former one into the outer side of the bone for the rest of its length and acting thus advantageously is an efficient erector of the lower part of the hood.

1883, Charles W. De Vis, “Myology of Chlamydosaurus kingii”, in Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, volume 8, pages 301–302:

(colloquial) The osseous or cartilaginous marginal extension behind the back of many a dinosaur such as a ceratopsid and reptiles such as Chlamydosaurus kingii.

huppu

In the human hand, over the extensor digitorum, an expansion of the extensor tendon over the metacarpophalangeal joint (the extensor hood syn. dorsal hood syn. lateral hood)

(colloquial) The prepuce; the foreskin or clitoral hood.


hood

English: hood

Scots: hude, huid

From Old English hōd, from Proto-Germanic *hōdaz.

A hood made of chain mail used as head armour.


figaro

From the eponymous character in various dramas, a name invented by Pierre de Beaumarchais. It could derive from fils de Caron, Caron being the original surname of Beaumarchais.


jeans

Originally a shortened form of jean fustian (from Middle English Gene (“Genoa; Genovese”) (from Latin Genua) + fustian (“strong cotton fabric”). The -s was added to jean under influence from the cognate Old French Jannes (modern French Gênes).

Traditionally most jeans are dyed dark blue.

As a general thing, they were dressed in homespun “jeans,” blue or yellow—there were no other varieties of it; all wore one suspender and sometimes two—yarn ones knitted at home,—some wore vests, but few wore coats.

1873, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], Charles Dudley Warner, The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, published 1874, →OCLC, page 19:

Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.

2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

(clothing) A pair of trousers made from denim cotton.


jeans

nl-noun

jeans f (plural jeans, diminutive jeansje n)

jeans (plural)
jeansje (diminutive neuter)


jeans

di jeans


jeans

O jeans é frequentemente tingido de anil.


kreska

pl-noun

kreska f (diminutive kreseczka, augmentative krecha, related adjective kreskowy)

kreseczka (diminutive)
krecha (augmentative)
kreskowy (adjective)
kreska (nominative singular)
kreski (nominative plural)
kreski (genitive singular)
kresek (genitive plural)
kresce (dative singular)
kreskom (dative plural)
kreskę (accusative singular)
kreski (accusative plural)
kreską (instrumental singular)
kreskami (instrumental plural)
kresce (locative singular)
kreskach (locative plural)
kresko (singular vocative)
kreski (plural vocative)

(cosmetics) wing (cosmetic effect where eyeliner curves outward and ends at a point)


overol

overalls plural (not US), coveralls plural (US only)


Inverness

Inverness
Inverness (disambiguation)
River Ness

From Inver- + Ness, from the River Ness.

A number of places in the United States:

A suburban village in Cook County, Illinois.


Inverness

A type of overcoat constructed without sleeves and having a shoulder cape extending to the wrists. The best examples are quite heavy, made from Harris tweed; often associated with Sherlock Holmes.


mitten

From Middle English myteyne, from Old French mitaine (Modern French mitaine), of unclear origin; possibly from mite, miste (“playful name for cat”) + -aine. Alternatively, mitaine may be from Old High German mittamo (“half”), superlative of mitti (“midpoint”), from Proto-Germanic *midjô, *midją (“middle, center”), from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between, in the middle, center”). Compare Catalan mitana, Medieval Latin mitta, mitana, and Occitan mitana.

noncog

A type of glove or garment that covers a hand with a separate sheath for the thumb, but not for other fingers, which are either enclosed in a single section or left uncovered.

Fausthandschuh

both chiefly used to specify, otherwise simply Handschuh


helm

nl-noun

helm m (plural helmen, diminutive helmpje n)

helmen (plural)
helmpje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: helm

→ Papiamentu: hèlmu

→ Virgin Islands Creole: helum

From Middle Dutch helm, from Old Dutch *helm, from Proto-West Germanic *helm, from Proto-Germanic *helmaz. Compare West Frisian helm, Low German Helm, German Helm, Danish hjelm.


helm

English: helm

Scots: helm

→ Welsh: helm

From Old English helm, from Proto-West Germanic *helm, from Proto-Germanic *helmaz.

Luken sweord longe, leiden o þe helmen.

They drew their long swords and put on their helms.

1475, An Apology for Lollard Doctrines, Attributed to Wycliffe, quoting Ephesians 6:17

The helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit.

Þe helm of hel and þe swerd of þe Spirit.


helm

helm (nominative singular)
helmas (nominative plural)
helm (accusative singular)
helmas (accusative plural)
helmes (genitive singular)
helma (genitive plural)
helme (dative singular)
helmum (dative plural)

Middle English: helm

English: helm

From Proto-West Germanic *helm, from Proto-Germanic *helmaz (“helmet”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover, to hide”). Compare Old Frisian helm, Old Saxon helm, Old High German helm, Old Norse hjalmr, Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐌻𐌼𐍃 (hilms).


attire

en-noun

attire (countable and uncountable, plural attires)

From Middle English atyren, atiren, from Old French atirier (“to equip”), from a- + tire (“rank”), akin to German Zier (“ornament”) and Old Norse tírr (“glory, renown”).

He was wearing his formal attire.

(clothing) One's dress; what one wears; one's clothes.


tomfoolery

tomfoolery (countable and uncountable, plural tomfooleries)


sequin

Borrowed from French sequin, from Italian zecchino, from zecca (“mint”), from Arabic سِكَّة (sikka, “die for coining, coin”). Doublet of zecchin.

der

His ideas of music-hall costumes had never gone beyond short skirts, a swirl of lace, and glittering sequins; but Miss Antonia had expressed herself on that subject in no uncertain terms.

1915, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter CVII, in Of Human Bondage:

(fashion) A sparkling spangle used for the decoration of ornate clothing.

пайети

sparkling spangle used for decoration of ornate clothing


cloche

Borrowed from French cloche (“bell”), from Medieval Latin clocca (“bell”). Doublet of cloak and clock.

Old window screens were shade cloth; flattened cardboard and carpet offcuts were weed matting; plastic bottles, when sliced in half, became little cloches to fit over seedlings to keep them warm.

2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 21:

A glass covering, originally bell-shaped, for garden plants to prevent frost damage and promote early growth.

Faux 19th-century bartenders in sleeve garters and baroque facial hair ply their trade in pre-Prohibition bars. Women wearing cloche hats order sidecars at speakeasies.

2011 October 3, Wayne Curtis, “From Tiki to Tacky—and Back”, in The Atlantic:

A bell-shaped, close-fitting women’s hat with a deep rounded crown and narrow rim.

(aviation, historical) An apparatus used in controlling certain aeroplanes, consisting principally of a steering column mounted with a universal joint at the base, which is bell-shaped and has attached to it the cables for controlling the wing-warping devices, elevator planes, etc.


chou

From French chou (“cabbage”); compare French pâte à choux (“choux pastry”). Doublet of caulis, cole, and kale.

Medium sized chous, or rosettes of the ribbon finish the trimming at bottom of chest opening, and at the waist points back and front.

1891, Locomotive Engineers Journal, volume 25, page 1146:

(fashion) A bunch, knot, or rosette of ribbon or other material, used as an ornament in women's clothing.


fillet

From Middle English filet, vylette, felet, filette, flette, from Old French filet, diminutive of fil (“thread”), from Latin fīlum (“thread”).

In secret shadow, farre from all mens sight:
 From her faire head her fillet she undight,
 And laid her stole aside.

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

A fillet binds her hair.

1713, [Alexander] Pope, Windsor-Forest. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:

"Know thy own worth, and reverence the lyre," is a line that should be as a fillet bound round the brow—a philactory embroidered on the garments of every son and daughter of Adam distinguished by the possession of that sacred gift, which, whether used or abused, applauded in itself or derided in its possessor, is the highest and the most inalienable distinction humanity ever has or ever can be gifted with, whether bestowed on the highest or the humblest being, in the great mass to which we all belong.

1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 252:

She was talking of Raymond Duncan, a walking absurdity who dressed in an ancient handwoven Greek costume and wore his hair in long braids reaching to his waist, adding, on ceremonial occasions, a fillet of bay-leaves.

1970, John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, Mew York, published 2007, page 42:

(now rare) A headband; a ribbon or other band used to tie the hair up, or keep a headdress in place, or for decoration.


lingerie

en-noun

lingerie (usually uncountable, plural lingeries)

/ˈlɒndʒəɹeɪ/

/ˌlɑn.ʒəˈɹeɪ/

/ˌlɔn.(d)ʒəˈɹæɪ/

/ˈlɔ̃.(d)ʒə.ɹæɪ/

Borrowed from French lingerie (“linen closet”). The irregular pronunciation may derive from the frequent shift of /ɛ̃/ (which is this word's first vowel in standard French) toward /ɑ̃/ or [æ̃] in European French, which also tends to be drifted towards /ɔ̃/.

Underwear or nightclothes (typically women's), especially when lacy or designed to be seductive.

Empire matinees in lingerie stuffs with trimmings of lace and embroidery are shown in great variety.

1906, Dry Goods Guide, volumes 17-18, page 70:


sideburns

sideburns pl (normally plural, singular sideburn)

Reformed from burnside, named after American Army general Ambrose Burnside (1824–1881), noted for his unusual facial hair.

named-after

Facial hair reaching from the top of the head down the side of the face to the side of the chin.

bakkebaarde

facial hair reaching from the top of the head down the side of the face to the side of the chin


cobbler

→ Irish: caibléir

Inherited from Middle English cobeler, cobelere (“mender of shoes, cobbler”) [and other forms]; further origin unknown. The word appears to be derived from an early form of cobble (“to mend roughly, patch; (specifically) to mend shoes, especially roughly”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns), but is attested much earlier than the verb which suggests that the verb may be a back-formation from cobbler.
Sense 2 (“sheep left to the end to be sheared”) is a pun on cobbler’s last (“tool for shaping or preserving the shape of shoes”); while sense 3 (“clumsy workman”) is derived from cobble + -er: see above.

suffix

the cobbler always wears the worst shoes

the cobbler's children are the worst shod

This honest Cobler has done what he might: / That Statesmen in their Shoes might walk upright. / But rotten Shoes of Spannish running-leather: / No Coblers skill, can stitch them strong together.

1647, Jerome Bellamie, “Postscript”, in Theodore de la Guard [pseudonym; Nathaniel Ward], The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America. […], London: […] J[ohn] D[ever] & R[obert] I[bbitson] for Stephen Bowtell, […], →OCLC; The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America (Force’s Collection of Historical Tracts; vol. III, no. 8), 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: […] Daniel Henchman, […]; [Washington, D.C.: W. Q. Force], 1713 (1844 printing), →OCLC, page 58:

[W]hat would they think of a French cobler cutting ſhoes for ſeveral of his fellow-ſubjects out of an old apple-tree?

1710 February 21 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison, “The Free-holder: No. 15. Friday, February 10. [1710.]”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume IV, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], published 1721, →OCLC, page 414:

All honeſt jogg trotmen, who go on ſmoothly and dully, and write hiſtory and politics, and are praiſed; and who, had they been bred coblers, would all their lives have only mended ſhoes, but never made them.

1766, [Oliver Goldsmith], “The History of a Philosophic Vagabond, Pursuing Novelty, but Losing Content”, in The Vicar of Wakefield: […], volume I, Salisbury, Wiltshire: […] B. Collins, for F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC, page 5:

A person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes.


cobbler

Fished for cobblers in the evening. The warbler sings its night-song.

1831 November 10, George Fletcher Moore, “The Journey”, in Martin Doyle, editor, Extracts from the Letters and Journals of George Fletcher Moore, Esq. […], London: Orr and Smith, […]; Dublin: W. Curry, Jun. & Co. […], published 1834, →OCLC, page 122:

The South Australian catfish (Cnidoglanis macrocephalus), a species of catfish native to Australia which has dorsal and pectoral fins bearing sharp, venomous spines.

The soldier or South Australian cobbler (Gymnapistes marmoratus), a brown fish native to southern Australian estuaries which is not closely related to Cnidoglanis macrocephalus, but also has venemous spines on its dorsal and pectoral fins.


caul

From Middle English calle, kelle, kalle, kolle (“caul, net, basket”), from Old English cāwl, cāul, cēawl, cēaul (“basket, container, net, sieve”), of uncertain origin. Reinforced by Old French cale (“close-fitting cap”), possibly a borrowing of the Old English term above, or alternatively related to Old French calotte (“headdress”), from Italian callotta, from Latin calautica (“type of female headdress which fell down over the shoulders”), itself of unknown origin. Cognate with Scots kell (“caul”).

ncog

Ne spared they to strip her naked all. / Then when they had despoild her tire and call, / Such as she was, their eyes might her behold […]

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

(historical) A style of close-fitting circular cap worn by women in the sixteenth century and later, often made of linen.


mayo

head

mayo (definite accusative mayoyu, plural mayolar)

mayoyu (accusative definite)
mayolar (plural)
mayo (nominative singular)
mayolar (nominative plural)
mayoyu (accusative definite singular)
mayoları (accusative definite plural)
mayoya (dative singular)
mayolara (dative plural)
mayoda (locative singular)
mayolarda (locative plural)
mayodan (ablative singular)
mayolardan (ablative plural)
mayonun (genitive singular)
mayoların (genitive plural)
mayom (first-person nominative singular)
mayolarım (first-person nominative singular)
mayon (nominative second-person singular)
mayoların (nominative second-person singular)
mayosu (nominative singular third-person)
mayoları (nominative singular third-person)
mayomuz (first-person nominative plural)
mayolarımız (first-person nominative plural)
mayonuz (nominative plural second-person)
mayolarınız (nominative plural second-person)
mayoları (nominative plural third-person)
mayomu (accusative definite first-person singular)
mayolarımı (accusative definite first-person singular)
mayonu (accusative definite second-person singular)
mayolarını (accusative definite second-person singular)
mayosunu (accusative definite singular third-person)
mayolarını (accusative definite singular third-person)
mayomuzu (accusative definite first-person plural)
mayolarımızı (accusative definite first-person plural)
mayonuzu (accusative definite plural second-person)
mayolarınızı (accusative definite plural second-person)
mayolarını (accusative definite plural third-person)
mayoma (dative first-person singular)
mayolarıma (dative first-person singular)
mayona (dative second-person singular)
mayolarına (dative second-person singular)
mayosuna (dative singular third-person)
mayolarına (dative singular third-person)
mayomuza (dative first-person plural)
mayolarımıza (dative first-person plural)
mayonuza (dative plural second-person)
mayolarınıza (dative plural second-person)
mayolarına (dative plural third-person)
mayomda (first-person locative singular)
mayolarımda (first-person locative singular)
mayonda (locative second-person singular)
mayolarında (locative second-person singular)
mayosunda (locative singular third-person)
mayolarında (locative singular third-person)
mayomuzda (first-person locative plural)
mayolarımızda (first-person locative plural)
mayonuzda (locative plural second-person)
mayolarınızda (locative plural second-person)
mayolarında (locative plural third-person)
mayomdan (ablative first-person singular)
mayolarımdan (ablative first-person singular)
mayondan (ablative second-person singular)
mayolarından (ablative second-person singular)
mayosundan (ablative singular third-person)
mayolarından (ablative singular third-person)
mayomuzdan (ablative first-person plural)
mayolarımızdan (ablative first-person plural)
mayonuzdan (ablative plural second-person)
mayolarınızdan (ablative plural second-person)
mayolarından (ablative plural third-person)
mayomun (first-person genitive singular)
mayolarımın (first-person genitive singular)
mayonun (genitive second-person singular)
mayolarının (genitive second-person singular)
mayosunun (genitive singular third-person)
mayolarının (genitive singular third-person)
mayomuzun (first-person genitive plural)
mayolarımızın (first-person genitive plural)
mayonuzun (genitive plural second-person)
mayolarınızın (genitive plural second-person)
mayolarının (genitive plural third-person)


zaffiro

From Late Latin sapphīrus, from Ancient Greek σάπφειρος (sáppheiros, “lapis lazuli”).


zaffiro

→ Greek: ζαφείρι (zafeíri)


bell-bottom trousers

Trousers with a wide flair towards the bottom of the legs, permitting them to be rolled-up above the knee; traditionally worn by sailors.


cuff

From Middle English cuffe, coffe (“glove, mitten”), of obscure origin. Perhaps from Old English cuffie (“hood, cap”), from Medieval Latin cofia, cofea, cuffa, cuphia (“helmet, headdress, hood, cap”), from Frankish *kuf(f)ja (“headdress”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuffju, from Proto-Germanic *kupjō (“cap”). Cognate with Middle High German kupfe (“cap”).


flipper

From flip + -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Flappert (“flipper, wing”).

cog

In marine mammals such as whales (or other aquatic animals such as sea turtles), a wide flat, limb adapted for swimming.

A wide, flat, paddle-like rubber covering for the foot, used in swimming.

плавник

A flat lever in a pinball machine, triggered by the player to strike the ball and keep it in play.

(cricket) A type of ball bowled by a leg spin bowler, which spins backwards and skids off the pitch with a low bounce.


zimarra

Borrowed from Italian zimarra. Doublet of simar.


zimarra

→ Sicilian: cimarra

→ French: simarre

→ English: simar

Borrowed from Spanish zamarra, chamarra, possibly from Arabic سَمُّور (sammūr), from Persian سمور (samur).


zircone

Borrowed from German Zirkonium (“zirconium”), from German Zirkon (“zircon”), both formed in the 1780s from Arabic زَرْقُون (zarqūn).


kamik

kamiit (plural)
kanngit (plural)
kamik (absolutive singular)
kamiit (absolutive plural)
kamiup (ergative singular)
kamiit (ergative plural)
kamimmut (allative singular)
kaminnut (allative plural)
kamimmit (ablative singular)
kaminnit (ablative plural)
kamikkut (prosecutive singular)
kamitsigut (plural prosecutive)
kamimmi (locative singular)
kaminni (locative plural)
kamimmik (instrumental singular)
kaminnik (instrumental plural)
kamittut (equative singular)
kamittut (equative plural)

From Proto-Inuit *kąmǝ̣ɣ, from Proto-Eskimo *kamǝɣ.


blouse

→ Bengali: ব্লাউজ (blauj)

→ Gujarati: બ્લાઉઝ (blāujha)

→ Hindi: ब्लाउज़ (blāuz)

desc

→ Japanese: ブラウス (burausu), ブルーズ (burūzu)

→ Korean: 블라우스 (beullauseu)

1828, from French blouse (“a workman's or peasant's smock”), see that for more.
More at blee, fold.

bloes

an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt

(fashion, obsolete) A shirt, typically loose and reaching from the neck to the waist.

(fashion) A shirt for women or girls, particularly a shirt with buttons and often a collar; a dress shirt tailored for women.

(military fashion) A loose-fitting uniform jacket.

工作罩衫

military: a loose-fitting uniform jacket


blouse

desc

→ Arabic: بَلُوزَة (balūza), بْلُوزَة (blūza)

→ Catalan: brusa

→ Czech: blůza

→ Danish: bluse

desctree

→ Dutch: bloes, blouse
Afrikaans: bloes
Petjo: bloes (archaic)
→ Caribbean Hindustani: blus
→ Caribbean Javanese: blus
→ Indonesian: blus

→ English: blouse
→ Bengali: ব্লাউজ (blauj)
→ Gujarati: બ્લાઉઝ (blāujha)
→ Hindi: ब्लाउज़ (blāuz)
→ Japanese: ブラウス (burausu), ブルーズ (burūzu)
→ Korean: 블라우스 (beullauseu)

→ German: Bluse, Blouse
→ Bulgarian: блу́за (blúza)
→ Hungarian: blúz
→ Hunsrik: Bluse
→ Macedonian: блуза (bluza)
→ Russian: блу́за (blúza)
→ Serbo-Croatian: blúza

→ German Low German: Bluus

→ Italian: blusa

→ Luxembourgish: Blus

→ Norwegian: bluse

→ Persian: بلوز (boluz, bluz)

→ Polish: bluza

→ Portuguese: blusa

→ Romanian: bluză

→ Spanish: blusa
→ Tagalog: blusa

→ Swedish: blus

→ Turkish: bluz

→ Venetan: bluxa

→ Walloon: blouze

1788, of obscure origin. Three hypotheses are:
* French blousse (“scraps of wool”), from Occitan lano blouso (“pure or short wool”), from blous, blos (“pure, empty, bare”), from Old High German blōz (“naked, bare”) (German bloß (“bare”))
* A conflation of the aforementioned and French bliaud, bliaut (a kind of smock or robe, whence English bliaus, bliaut), from Old French bliau, also from Frankish *blīfald (“topcoat of scarlet colour”), from *blīu (“coloured, bright”) + *fald (“crease, fold”). More at English blee, fold, and bliaut.
* From Medieval Latin pelusia, from Pelusium, a city of Upper Egypt, a clothing manufacturer during the Middle Ages.

der

blouse d’hôpital

uniform or coat with buttons down the front


burka

From Hindustani برقع / बुरक़ा (burqā), from Classical Persian برقع (burqa'), from Arabic بُرْقُع (burquʕ).

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-burka.wav

A Central Asian garment that covers the whole body, which has a net screen covering the eyes so they cannot be seen, and is worn by women.

بُرْقُع

female garment that covers the whole body


burka

burkaen (definite singular)
burkaer (indefinite plural)
burkaene (definite plural)

From Urdu or Persian, from Arabic بُرْقُع (burquʕ, “veil”).


burka

burkaen (definite singular)
burkaer (indefinite plural)
burkaar (indefinite plural)
burkaene (definite plural)
burkaane (definite plural)


burka

(Islam) burka (female garment that covers the whole body)


burka

bȗrka (canonical feminine)
бу̑рка (Cyrillic)
burka (nominative singular)
burke (nominative plural)
burke (genitive singular)
burka (genitive plural)
burki (dative singular)
burkama (dative plural)
burku (accusative singular)
burke (accusative plural)
burko (singular vocative)
burke (plural vocative)
burki (locative singular)
burkama (locative plural)
burkom (instrumental singular)
burkama (instrumental plural)

burka, burqa (female garment that covers the whole body)


burka

burka (indefinite nominative singular)
burkas (genitive indefinite singular)
burkan (definite nominative singular)
burkans (definite genitive singular)
burkor (indefinite nominative plural)
burkors (genitive indefinite plural)
burkorna (definite nominative plural)
burkornas (definite genitive plural)


spa

spa (beauty treatments designed to moisturise and nourish the skin; also: cosmetics used for such treatments)

spa (health resort near a mineral spring or hot spring)


spa

(postpositive) spa (beauty treatments designed to moisturise and nourish the skin; also: cosmetics used for such treatments)


braces

(British) A pair of straps crossing one's shoulders and extending down to one's trousers, where a clip or button arrangement allows them to affix to the trousers, ensuring that they will not fall off.


bowler

From the name of the hatmakers Thomas and William Bowler, associated with early production.

“One marble hall, with staircase complete, one butler and three flunkeys to receive a retired sojer who dares to ring the bell. D'you know, old boy, I gave my bowler to the butler, whangee to one flunkey, gloves to another, and there was the fourth poor blighter looking like an orphan at a Mothers' Meeting. …"

1929, Baldwyn Dyke Acland, chapter 2, in Filibuster:

A bowler hat; a round black hat formerly popular among British businessmen.


hyacinth

From Middle English jacinth, partly from Old French jacincte, from Medieval Latin jacintus, and partly from Old English iacinþ, from Medieval Latin jacinthus, both from Latin hyacinthus, from Ancient Greek ὑάκινθος (huákinthos, “any of several dark blue flowers”), ultimately from a non-Indo-European Mediterranean language. Re-Latinized in the 16th century.

A variety of zircon, ranging in color from brown, orange, reddish-brown and yellow; a jacinth.


strip

en-verb

strip (third-person singular simple present strips, present participle stripping, simple past and past participle stripped)

strips (present singular third-person)
stripping (participle present)
stripped (participle past)
stripped (past)

From Middle English strepen, strippen, from Old English strīepan (“plunder”), from Proto-Germanic *strēpōną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ter(h₁)- (“to be stiff; be rigid; exert”). Probably related to German Strafe (“deprivation, fine, punishment”).

cog

Seeing that no one else was about, he stripped and dived into the river.

The hy auter he strypte naked;
There on he stode, and craked;
He shoke downe all the clothys,
And sware horryble othes
Before the face of God, […]

c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 63, lines 49–53:

The prosecution case was that the men forced the sisters to strip, threw their clothes over the bridge, then raped them and participated in forcing them to jump into the river to their deaths. As he walked off the bridge, Clemons was alleged to have said: "We threw them off. Let's go."

2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian:

(usually intransitive) To take off clothing.


strip

She stood up on the table and did a strip.

The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.

стриптийз

short for striptease — see also striptease


upper

(footwear) The Y-shaped strap on flip-flops.

The upper portion of something
The Y-shaped strap on flip-flops.


halo

From Latin halōs, from Ancient Greek ἅλως (hálōs, “threshing floor; disk; disk of the sun or moon; ring of light around the sun or moon”), of unknown origin. The threshing floor's circular threshold or oxen walking on it in a circle gave rise to the other meanings. Used in English since 1563; the sense of light around someone’s head since 1646.

der

massive astronomical compact halo object

massive astrophysical compact halo object


halo

For the second noun sense, the monitor lizard's timidity likened to cowardice.


cufflink

Every gentleman needs at least one pair of cufflinks.

A button or stud used to hold a sleeve cuff together.

كَبَكْ

button used to hold a sleeve cuff together


abbigliamento

Semi-learned borrowing from French habillement.


무

Sino-Korean word from 武, from the Middle Korean reading 무〯 (Yale: mwǔ).

文(문)ᄒᆞ고 武(무)ᄒᆞᆫ 吉(길)甫(보)ㅣ여 萬(만)邦(방)이 법을 삼놋다

1613, 시경언해/詩經諺解 [Korean translation of the Classic of Poetry]:

O Jifu, who mastered the arts of peace and the arts of war! The myriad realms make you as their law.

mun-hago mu-han Gilbo-iyeo manbang-i beob-eul samnotda

신이 젼하ᄅᆞᆯ 밧드러 만셰ᄅᆞᆯ 뫼올가 ᄒᆞ오나, 쳔비쇼ᄉᆡᆼ이라 문으로 옥당의 막히옵고 무로 션천의 막일지라[…]

early 18th century, 홍길동전 경판본/洪吉童傳 京板本 [Seoul edition of the Tale of Hong Gildong]:

Though I would like to serve Your Majesty and be at your side for a myriad generations, I am the child of a lowly slave-woman. With regards to the civil arts, the halls of jade [i.e. civil service] are blocked to me; as for the military path, the Office of Transmission [post of military officers in the Korean army] is blocked to me.

sin-i jeonha-reul batdeureo mansye-reul moe'olga haona, cheonbisyosaeng-ira mun-euro okdang-ui makhiopgo mu-ro syeoncheon-ui magiljira[…]

진실노 武(무)를 論(논)하고 兵(병)을 說(설)하는 者(자)를 時(시)代(대)의 錯(착)誤(오)者(자)로 하야 이를 呪(주)咀(저)하게 되얏다.

1920, “戰(전)爭(쟁)은 罪(죄)惡(악)뿐 余(여)의 縱(종)橫(횡)觀(관) [War is naught but evil: my wide-ranging thoughts]”, in The Dong-a Ilbo:

Truly, people have come to curse those who discuss military affairs and speak of armies, considering them as men who have misread the era.

Jinsil-lo mu-reul non-hago byeong-eul seol-haneun ja-reul sidae-ui chagoja-ro haya i-reul jujeo-hage doeyatda.

국가 차원에서는 강병(强兵)이 없었고 개인 차원에서는 무(武)를 천시한 결과라는 것이다.

2019, “조선이 명을 섬길 때 일본은 세계를 만났다 [joseoni myeong'eul seomgil ttae ilboneun segyereul mannatda, When Korea served Ming China, Japan encountered the world]”, in The Chosun Ilbo:

That is, [defeat] was the result of not having high-quality troops from a state perspective, and neglecting martial virtues from an individual perspective.

(especially historical) martial ethos; the military arts; everything to do with warfare or (by extension) martial arts, especially as a concept in East Asian political theory

the hanja entry at 武 for Sino-Korean compounds of 무


무

gusset (especially in traditional clothing)


abito

Borrowed from Spanish hábito, from Latin habitus.

habit (clothing of priests, monks and nuns)


abito

Borrowed from Venetan abito, itself borrowed from Latin habitus.


abito

Borrowed from Latin habitus (“habit, appearance”), a noun based on habeō (“have”).

bor+

Venian ver’ noi, e ciascuna gridava:
«Sòstati tu ch’a l’abito ne sembri
essere alcun di nostra terra prava».

1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XVI”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 7–9; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

They came towards us, and each one cried out: "Stop, you; for by your garb to us you seem to be some one of our depraved city."

vestita che fu la Cloe, conciosi il capo, e forbitosi il viso, tanto a ciascuno fuor del villesco abito parve più bella, che Dafni stesso appena la riconobbe

1812, Annibale Caro, transl., Gli amori pastorali di Dafni e Cloe [The Bucolic Loves of Daphnis and Chloe], Società Tipografica de' Classici Italiani, translation of Δάφνις καὶ Χλόη (Dáphnis kaì Khlóē) by Longus, Ragionamento quarto, page 136:

When Chloe was dressed, with her hair done, and her face cleaned, she seemed so much more beautiful outside the rustic garment that Daphnis himself barely recognized her.


abito

habit (clothing worn by monks and nuns, especially in a religious order)


vizard

An alteration of visor by confusion of the ending.

Alternative spelling of visard (“type of mask”)


bomber

A few years ago, the leather bomber was a gold mine for retailers and a gravy train for vendors. Consumers were crazy for them.

1991 March 18, Jeff Black, “The Bomber Jacket Is Taking Lots of Flak”, in DNR, volume 21, number 53, →ISSN, page 13:

First singer and guitarist Marcus Mumford, wearing a black suit, then bassist Ted Dwane, in leather bomber and T-shirt.[…]

2012 November 15, Tom Lamont, “How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world”, in The Guardian:


shank

From Middle English schanke, from Old English sċanca (“leg”), from Proto-West Germanic *skankō, from Proto-Germanic *skankô (compare West Frisian skonk, Low German Schanke, German Schenkel (“shank, leg”), Danish skank, Norwegian skank, Swedish skänkel), from *skankaz (compare Old Norse skakkr (“wry, crooked”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keng- (compare Middle Irish scingim (“I spring”), Ancient Greek σκάζω (skázō, “to limp”).

(ornithology, colloquial) A redshank or greenshank, various species of Old World wading birds in the genus Tringa having distinctly colored legs.

The metal part on a curb bit that falls below the mouthpiece, which length controls the severity of the leverage action of the bit, and to which the reins of the bridle are attached.

Alternative form: yank

LBC's tryna blackball me / And tryna blame your boy for knife crime (Like, what?) / I don't use a shank, I got money in the bank / Man, I'd rather do a drive-by

2017, Stormzy, Mura Masa (lyrics and music), “Mr Skeng” (track 1), in Gang Signs & Prayer, performed by Stormzy:

One of the shot callers' responsibilities was to control the shanks within the prison population—the crude homemade knives used for stabbing another prisoner.

2019, Casey Diaz, Mike Yorkey, The Shot Caller […] , Emanate Books, →ISBN, page 76:


shank

en-verb

shank (third-person singular simple present shanks, present participle shanking, simple past and past participle shanked)

shanks (present singular third-person)
shanking (participle present)
shanked (participle past)
shanked (past)

(slang) To stab, especially with an improvised blade.


dresser

From Middle English dresser, equivalent to dress + -er.

Because we were the first by a long way to turn trendy, we're still the only dressers in Scotland and our enemies were easily recognised: denims and DM's, skinheads and parkas.

2015, Jay Allan, Bloody Casuals: Diary of a Football Hooligan:

(UK) A football hooligan who wears designer clothing; a casual.


makeup

en-noun

makeup (usually uncountable, plural makeups)

⇒ Portuguese: make

She is wearing a lot of makeup.

(countable, uncountable) Cosmetics; colorants and other substances applied to the skin to alter its appearance.

grimering

cosmetics; colorants and other substances applied to the skin to alter its appearance


cosmetic

From French cosmétique, from Ancient Greek κοσμητική (kosmētikḗ, “the art of dress and ornament”), κοσμητικός (kosmētikós), from κοσμητής (kosmētḗs, “orderer, director, decorator”), from κοσμέω (kosméō, “to order, to arrange, to rule, to adorn, to equip, to dress, to embellish”).

der

These endocrine disruptors are everywhere: plastics, shampoos, cosmetics, cushions, pesticides, canned foods and A.T.M. receipts. They often aren’t on labels and can be difficult to avoid.

2021 February 20, Nicholas Kristof, “What Are Sperm Telling Us?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Any substances applied to enhance the external color or texture of the skin, e.g. lipstick, eyeshadow, eyeliner; makeup.

козметика

any substances applied to enhance the external color or texture of the skin

beauty products

substances enhance external color or texture


editorial

/ˌɛdɪˈtɔːɹɪəl/

/ˌɛdɪˈtɔɹiəl/

(fashion) Appropriate for high fashion magazines.


fierce

en-adj

fierce (comparative fiercer or more fierce, superlative fiercest or most fierce)

fiercer (comparative)
more fierce (comparative)
fiercest (superlative)
most fierce (superlative)

From Middle English fers, fiers, borrowed from Old French fers (“wild", "ferocious”), nominative of fer, from Latin ferus (“wild", "untamed”).

Tyra said to strike a pose and make it fierce.

(US, LGBTQ slang, fashion) Of exceptional quality, exhibiting boldness or chutzpah.


uniform

Borrowed from Middle French uniforme, from Latin uniformis.

The Hooverette [housedress] can be worn as a dress or as an apron.
This is the latest in uniforms, madam, according to Vogue.

1932, Elmer Wheeler, Tested Selling Sentences (the Language of the Brain): Master Book:

‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”.[…]’.

1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 6, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

F. W. Robertson
There are many things which a soldier will do in his plain clothes which he scorns to do in his uniform.

Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16.[…]There are no inspectors, no exams until the age of 18, no school league tables, no private tuition industry, no school uniforms. […]

2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30:

A distinctive outfit that serves to identify members of a group, company, prison inmates, etc.

uniformë

distinctive outfit as a means of identifying members of a group

NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet
w:NATO Phonetic Alphabet

(international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Uniform from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.


uniform

en-verb

uniform (third-person singular simple present uniforms, present participle uniforming, simple past and past participle uniformed)

uniforms (present singular third-person)
uniforming (participle present)
uniformed (participle past)
uniformed (past)

You can't erect an army by uniforming and drilling a few hundred thousand clerks and farmers.


uniform

head

uniform m or f (definite singular uniforma or uniformen, indefinite plural uniformer, definite plural uniformene)

uniforma (definite singular)
uniformen (definite singular)
uniformer (indefinite plural)
uniformene (definite plural)


uniform

uniform f (definite singular uniforma, indefinite plural uniformer, definite plural uniformene)

uniforma (definite singular)
uniformer (indefinite plural)
uniformene (definite plural)


uniform

uniform (nominative singular)
uniformy (nominative plural)
uniformu (genitive singular)
uniformów (genitive plural)
uniformowi (dative singular)
uniformom (dative plural)
uniform (accusative singular)
uniformy (accusative plural)
uniformem (instrumental singular)
uniformami (instrumental plural)
uniformie (locative singular)
uniformach (locative plural)
uniformie (singular vocative)
uniformy (plural vocative)


décolleté

en-adj

décolleté (comparative more décolleté, superlative most décolleté)

more décolleté (comparative)
most décolleté (superlative)

Borrowed from French décolleté, from décolleter (“to bare the neck and shoulders”).

"She does not remember my short frocks at all, Lord Henry. But I remember her very well at Vienna thirty years ago, and how décolletée she was then."

1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter XV, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:

Having a low neckline that reveals the cleavage.

dekolletiert

having a low neckline that reveals the cleavage


plimsoll

From Samuel Plimsoll, a Bristol merchant.

“Yes, there are two distinct sets of footprints, both wearing rubber shoes—one I think ordinary plimsolls, the other goloshes,” replied the sergeant.

1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 13, in Well Tackled!:

While here, now, a large boy, a famous bully, swaggered to the front to bend, leering, and offer his satirical backside to be ineffectually beaten with a plimsoll by the gentle Scot.

(UK, Ireland) A rubber-soled lace-up canvas shoe for sports or onboard ships; a precursor of trainers.


dap

Onomatopoeic, from the sound made when a person runs while wearing daps.

I somehow expected them to shout obscenities, and was glad I had come ordinarily dressed, in a sports shirt, an old linen jacket, jeans and daps.

1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 169:

(West Country, Somerset, Bristol, Wales, usually in the plural) A plimsoll.


necklace

(jewelry) An article of jewelry that is worn around the neck, most often made of a string of precious metal, pearls, gems, beads or shells, and sometimes having a pendant attached.


velvet

English: velvet

Scots: velvet

Borrowed from Old Occitan veluet, from Late Latin villutittus.


casual

casual (comparative more casual, superlative most casual)

more casual (comparative)
most casual (superlative)

/ˈkɛʒ(ʉː)əl/

From Middle French casuel, from Late Latin cāsuālis (“happening by chance”), from Latin cāsus (“event”) (English case), from cadere (“to fall”) (whence English cadence).

der

I removed my jacket and threw it casually over the back of the settee.

2007, Nick Holland, The Girl on the Bus, page 117:


casual

/ˈkɛʒ(ʉː)əl/

At 15, he became a casual: one of the label-wearing, wedge-flicking, swaggering hooligan peacock boys who dominated the north-west when I was growing up. Casuals were working-class lads (called Perry boys in Manchester) who loved football, fighting and brilliant sportswear.

2019 September 14, Miranda Sawyer, “Mark Leckey: ‘There has to be a belief that art has this power, this charisma'”, in The Guardian:

(UK, historical) A member of a group of football hooligans who wear expensive designer clothing to avoid police attention; see casual (subculture).

Next spring you’ll see more women than ever wearing “casuals” and “flats,” the shoes with the wedge heels or no heels at all.

1948 December, “Shoes: Competition Is Back”, in Kiplinger Magazine, page 47, column 2:

In girls wearing casuals, ugly hypertrophied skin over the heels was frequently noted, probably due to the loose shoe moving as they walked.

Like his friends, he is wearing casuals, ideal for lounging around crypts.

1967, Kenneth Tynan, Tynan Right & Left: Plays, Films, People, Places and Events, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum, page 65:

He and I were wearing casuals[…]

1984, William Golding, The Paper Men, page 71:

(in the plural) Shoes suitable for everyday use, as opposed to more formal footwear.


vyö

vyön (genitive)
vyödy (partitive)
vyö (nominative singular)
vyöt (nominative plural)
vyön (genitive singular)
vyölöin (genitive plural)
vyödy (partitive singular)
vyölöi (partitive plural)
vyöh (illative singular)
vyölöih (illative plural)
vyös (inessive singular)
vyölöis (inessive plural)
vyöspäi (elative singular)
vyölöispäi (elative plural)
vyöle (allative singular)
vyölöile (allative plural)
vyöl (adessive singular)
vyölöil (adessive plural)
vyölpäi (ablative singular)
vyölöilpäi (ablative plural)
vyökse (singular translative)
vyölöikse (plural translative)
vyönny (essive singular)
vyölöinny (essive plural)
vyöttäh (abessive singular)
vyölöittäh (abessive plural)
vyönke (comitative singular)
vyölöinke (comitative plural)
vyölöiči (instructive plural)
vyöči (prolative singular)

olo-decl

Type 15/<i class="Latn mention" lang="olo">suu</i>, no gradation

From Proto-Finnic *vöö. Cognates include Finnish vyö and Estonian vöö.


outfit

→ Dutch: outfit

→ German: Outfit

→ Italian: outfit

→ Portuguese: outfit

→ Serbo-Croatian: outfit

→ Spanish: outfit

Variant of earlier out-fit, from fit out. Equivalent to out- + fit.

She wore a fashionable outfit with matching purse and shoes.

Don't call what you're wearing an outfit.


outfit

nl-noun

outfit m (plural outfits, diminutive outfitje n)

outfits (plural)
outfitje (diminutive neuter)

Unadapted borrowing from English outfit.


outfit

[aʊ̯t͡ʃˈfit͡ʃ]

[aʊ̯t͡ʃˈfit͡ʃ]

[aʊ̯t͡ʃˈfit͡ʃ]


outfit

(Croatia, Bosnia) outfit (set of clothing)


duds

I looked at what I could see of my rough blue duds, which I had plenty of opportunity of contrasting with the gay attire of the citizens we had come across; […]

1890, William Morris, News from Nowhere, in the journal The Commonweal. (First published in book form 1890.)

“I don't know how you and the ‘head,’ as you call him, will get on, but I do know that if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. […]”

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

They grab his duds and his picks as well. They hoy him down to the pit of hell. Down you go and fare ye well. You dirty blackleg miner.

1970 June, traditional (lyrics and music), “The Blackleg Miner” (track 4), in Hark! The Village Wait, performed by Steeleye Span:

We were hard-pressed to find anyone who actually skis in these designer duds, but someone's buying the stuff: Hilfiger's ski and boardwear line grosses around $25 million per year […]

JESSE:Badger? Where you been keeping yourself? Nice duds.

2008 October 26, Vince Gilligan,Patty Lin, directed by Tricia Brock, Breaking Bad (Gray Matter) (1), episode 5 (TV), spoken by Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul):

Scavenger: Nice duds. Better watch your back. There's probably already a dozen people planning to kill you for them.

2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Elaaden:

(US, British, informal, dated) Clothing, especially for work or of rough appearance.

Klamotten

clothing, especially those for work or of rough appearance


hula

ha-noun

hū̀lā f (plural hūlunā̀, possessed form hū̀lar̃)

hū̀lā (canonical feminine)
hūlunā̀ (plural)
hū̀lar̃ (possessed-form)

cap, hat - especially, the traditional embroidered cap worn by Hausa men


gloss

Unadapted borrowing from English (lip) gloss.


heliotrope

en-noun

heliotrope (countable and uncountable, plural heliotropes)

PIE word
 *sóh₂wl̥
The noun is borrowed from French héliotrope, from Latin hēliotropium (“plant which turns to face the sun; bloodstone”), from Ancient Greek ἡλῐοτρόπῐον (hēlĭotrópĭon, “European heliotrope (Heliotropium europaeum); bloodstone; solar clock, sundial”), from ἥλῐος (hḗlĭos, “the sun”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥ (“the sun”)) + τρόπος (trópos, “a turn”) (from τρέπω (trépō, “to rotate; to turn”) (from Proto-Indo-European *trep- (“to turn”)) + -ος (-os, suffix forming nouns from verbs)) + -ῐον (-ĭon, diminutive suffix forming nouns).
The French-derived spelling displaced Middle English elitrope, eliotropius, elitropium (“plant which turns to face the sun; bloodstone”) [and other forms], from Old English eliotropus, from Latin hēliotropium (see above); and Old English siġelhweorfa, sōlsece, and sunnfolgend (“heliotrope flower”).
Sense 6 (“synonym of bloodstone”) is from the fact that a piece of the mineral placed in water is said to change the sun’s rays to a blood-red colour: see the 1601 quotation.
The adjective is probably derived from the noun.

ref

From the B. A. Colonna collection, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S.A.

nb...

eliscrope, eliotropia, elitrepie, elitropius

heliotropi

plant with flowers which turn to face and follow the sun

garden heliotrope

Heliotropium arborescens or Valeriana officinalis

The pretious ſtone Heliotropium, is found in Æthiopia, Affricke, and Cyprus: the ground thereof is a deepe greene in manner of a leeke, but the ſame is garniſhed vvith veins of bloud: the reaſon of the name Heliotropium is this, For that if it be throvvne into a paile of vvater, it chaungeth the raies of the Sun by vvay of reverberation into a bloudie colour, eſpecially that vvhich commeth out of Æthiopia: the ſame beeing vvithout the vvater, doth repreſent the bodie of the Sun, like unto a mirroir:[…]

[1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XXXVII.] Of Certaine Gems Digested in Order According to the Alphabet.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], 2nd tome, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 627:

Amid this dread exuberance of woe / Ran naked spirits wing'd with horrid fear, / Nor hope had they of crevice where to hide, / Or heliotrope to charm them out of view.

1814, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXIV”, in H[enry] F[rancis] Cary, transl., The Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, of Dante Alighieri. […], volume I (Hell), London: […] [J. Barfield] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 104, lines 89–92:

(countable, uncountable, mineralogy) Synonym of bloodstone (“a green chalcedony that is sprinkled with red spots or veins of hematite”)

heliotrop

synonym of bloodstone — see also bloodstone