Etymologie, Etimología, Étymologie, Etimologia, Etymology, (griech.) etymología, (lat.) etymologia, (esper.) etimologio
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Stoffe und Kleidung, Tela y Ropa, Tissu et Vêtements, Tessuto e Abbigliamento, Fabric and Clothes, (esper.) teksindustrioj, vestoj

apron (W3)

• von lat. "computare" zu frz. "conter"
• von lat. "primum" zu frz. "printemps"
• von lat. "matta" zu frz. "natte" (dt. "Matte")

Apron | Apron-string Tenure (An) | Bishops Apron | Blue-apron Statesman (A) | Mothers Apron Strings

Tahitian mourner's costume A tahitian mourner's costume comprising a mask headdress, a breastplate and an apron. Contributed by Museum

Masonic memorabilia I inherited this collection of Masonic memorabilia. The apron belonged to my granddad who was a grand master and the ... Contributed by Individual

Apron This handmade item was collected by the owner's sister in China. Contributed by Individual

WHO FIRST WROTE ABOUT GRANDMA'S APRON? 0604

24.10.2008 to be tied to somebody's apron strings

Little Blue Apron

full apron

Exposing the Feminine Mystique

Although the beginning of the'60s showcased women in frilly white aprons, spatula in hand and crying child on hip, females hadn't been in such a role forever. During World War II (1941-45), women left the sphere of house and home and adopted what had been considered male roles in society. They worked in factories and kept America running as the country's young men headed off to war.
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APRON STRING HOLD. An estate held by a man during his wife's life.

Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874: The Shoemaker's Apron - A Second Book of Czechoslovak Fairy Tales and Folk Tales (English) (as Author)

Gates, Eleanor, 1875-1951: Apron-Strings (English) (as Author)

Matulka, Jan, 1890-1972: The Shoemaker's Apron - A Second Book of Czechoslovak Fairy Tales and Folk Tales (English) (as Illustrator)

"APRON": A piece of timber fixed behind the lower part of the stern [sic], just above the fore end of the keel. A covering to the vent or lock of a cannon.

an apron a napron

apron | cling to one's mother's apron strings | hang on to one's mother's apron strings | let go of one's mother's apron strings | tied to one's mother's apron strings

Ties with Tradition - Macedonian apron designs

to be tied to her apron strings
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In addition to describing a garment that is usually fastened in the back and worn over all or part of the front of the body to protect clothing, apron also refers to a variety of other things in the sense of something that protects or is placed in front:

• the paved strip in front of and around airport hangars and terminal buildings
• the part of a stage in a theatre extending in front of the curtain
• a platform, as of planking, at the entrance to a dock
• a covering or structure along a shoreline for protection against erosion
• the part of a boxing ring floor that extends beyond the ropes

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Apron link

• apron high
• apron husband
• apron knight
• apron strings
• apron up
• Hottentot apron

apron-man

The Spotted Apron

Apron strings

Tied to your mother's apron strings

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False Starts and New Beginnings

• "a napron" became "an apron"
• "l'ejade" became "lejade"
• "la munition" became "l'ammunition"
• "el lagarto" became "ellagarto", changing to "alligator"
• "an eke-name" migrated to "a neke-name", which became a "nickname"
• "a noumpere" became "an oumpere" or "umpire"
• lat. "præ-" + "coquere" became "præcox", engl. "precocious"

Apron strings, Tied To

Apron

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Leather Glossary
Synonyms and Abbreviations

cloth (W3)

Coburgs (W3)

E. Cobham Brewer 1810-1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.

Coburgs: A corded or ribbed cotton cloth made in Coburg (Saxony), or in imitation thereof. Chiefly used for ladies’ dresses.

Codpiece (W3)

codpiece (n.): mid-15c., "a bagged appendage to the front of the breeches; often conspicuous" [OED], from Old English codd "a bag, pouch, husk," in Middle English, "testicles" (common Germanic, compare Old Norse koddi "pillow," Dutch kodde "bag") + piece (n.).

Shakespeare concordance: word forms beginning with C: codpiece (7) | codpieces (1) | cods (1)

codpiece

codpiece

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Mommy, What's a Codpiece?
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A bagged appendage to the front of close fitting hose or breeches worn by men of the 15th to 17th c.: often conspicuous or ornamented.

Codpiece-Antonio Navagero (1565), from Wikipedia

Men of the period wore hose or leggings, and a longish coat or jacket over those. The hose were not joined at the crotch, so the genitals could be exposed, but the naughty bits were, in the beginning, covered by the length of the jacket (doublet). However, fashion tastes brought about a rise in the hemline of the doublet. Once it started approaching the tops of the thighs, men risked exposing their genitals as they mounted and dismounted their horses and during other activities. Thus the "codpiece" was born. It was originally a simple triangle of cloth laced to the gap in the hose, but with time it grew larger and more ornate, and it even acquired padding. As tastes changed, the "codpiece" eventually went out of fashion, but it can still be seen today in period clothing, and also among certain groups such as heavy metal rockers and superheroes (certain versions of Batman in film, for example).

The word "codpiece" is, etymologically, "a piece for the scrotum or testicles", as "cod" is the Old English word for "testicle" by transference from its previous meaning, "scrotum". The "scrotum" meaning arose from the word's earlier, broader sense of "pouch". "Codpiece" dates from the late 15th century, while "cod" turns up in the written record around 1000. One could say that a "codpiece" is a "piece for the pouch"!
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• Bodice (http://www.lady-faire.com/bodices.html)
• Farthingale. http://bit.ly/1js2gq1
• surfeit
• Privies - http://www.dmrenfaire.com/
• privelege

Cotton (W3)

| Stapleton Cotton Combermere | Charles Cotton | George Edward Lynch Cotton | John Cotton | Sir Henry John Stedman Cotton | Sir Robert Bruce Cotton | Cotton-spinning machinery | Cotton (Family) | Cotton goods and yarn | Cotton and cotton industry | Cotton manufacture | Cotton Mather

cotton | cotton eye joe

Lavender Cotton

cotton | cotton bating | cotton content | cotton drill | cotton fiber content paper | cotton linters | cotton parchment | cotton thread | cotton wool

Cotton Monsters!

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Philip Miller of the Chelsea Physic Garden sent the first cotton seeds to American colony of Georgia in 1732.
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"Cotton gin" is recorded from 1794 (see gin (n.2)).

cotton (v.) "to get on with" someone (usually with to), 1560s, perhaps from Welsh "cytuno" "consent", "agree". But perhaps also a metaphor from cloth finishing and thus from cotton (n.). Related: "Cottoned"; "cottoning".

Päonien: Ball o' Cotton | Puffed Cotton

cotton | cotton picking | cotton-pickin' | on high cotton | sitting on high cotton

Cotton rat

| cottonade | cotton ball | Cotton Belt | cotton boll | cotton bollworm | cotton cake | cotton candy | cotton flannel | cotton for brains | cotton gin | cotton grass | cotton-grass | cottongrass | Cottonian | cotton mill | cotton mouse | cottonmouth | cottonmouth moccasin | cottonmouth snake | cottonmouth water moccasin | cotton mule | cotton on | cotton picking | cotton-picking | cotton plant | cotton rat | cotton rose | cotton rosemallow | cottonsedge | cotton sedge | cotton seed | cottonseed | cottonseed cake | cottonseed meal | cottonseed oil | cotton stainer | cotton strain | cottontail | cottontail rabbit | cotton thistle | cotton tie | cottonweed | Cotton Whig | cottonwick | cottonwood | cotton wool | cottony | cottony-cushion scale | cottony leak

| Cotton Belt | cotton candy | cotton gin | cotton grass | cottonmouth | cotton-picking | cottonseed | cottonseed oil | cotton stainer | cottontail | cottonweed | cottonwood | Cottonwood | cotton wool | cottony | Egyptian cotton | guncotton | pima cotton | Sea Island cotton | silk cotton | silk-cotton tree | upland cotton

Levi's 501 Cotton

Organic Cotton

Beach-cotton | Cotton | Cottonade | Cottonswiss-Ausrüstung | Feincotton | Gminder-Cotton | Silcotton | Super-Cotton | Wintercotton

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So the notion of "success" that we find in the first uses of cotton in the sense you intend, apparently was an extension of the "success" in cloth finishing or hat making.

Cotton on

In the tall cotton - viel Baumwolle bringt Wohlstand

cotton | cotton-grass | cotton-weed | cottonwood | snake-cotton

"cotton wool" = dt. "Watte"

Etymology

Middle English "cotoun", from Anglo-Norman "cotun", from Old Italian (Genoa) "cotone", from Arabic (Egypt) "qútun", (Hispano-Arab) "qutun", variants of Arabic "qutn", from root "*qtn", possibly originally from Ancient Egyptian.

Cognate to Dutch "katoen", German "Kattun", Italian "cotone", Spanish "algodón", and Portuguese "algodão".

Cotton (verb)

Perchance to Slobber.
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To "cotton" to someone or something is a slightly folksy way of saying that you get along with or have taken a liking to that person or thing.
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"Cotton" as a verb is, somewhat surprisingly, directly derived from our old friend "cotton" the fabric, or, as the Oxford English Dictionary puts it, "the white fibrous substance, soft and downy like wool, which clothes the seeds of the cotton-plant." The noun "cotton" is a very old word, entering English around 1286 from the Old French "coton," which came in turn from the Arabic "qutun."
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dress (W3)

fabric (W3)

gorgeous, gorge, Gurgel (W3)

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"Gorgeous" comes from a Middle French word for a piece of clothing an elegant lady of the Middle Ages would have worn.
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In medieval French, the word "gorgias" meant "wimple". ... It's a cloth headdress that covered the head, neck, and shoulders, leaving only the face exposed. In the Middle Ages, elegant and fashionable European women wore elaborate wimples, and over time "gorgias" also came to mean "elegant". English speakers learned the word from French and adopted it, originally with the spelling "gorgayse", which was later modified to the modern "gorgeous". By the 15th century, "gorgeous" had lost the "wimple" sense in English and simply meant "elegant" or "beautiful".
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Gorgeous Guy (W3)

High Heels (W3)

• High Heels - Die Waffen einer Frau - Melodram (1991)
• Kika - Satire (1993)
• Sprich mit ihr - Melodram (2001)
• La mala educacion - Kinofilm (2004)

Die Modefrage - Wann werden aus "Pumps" "High Heels"? - Je höher, desto besser. Diese Absatzphilosophie gilt schon seit Jahrhunderten. So spricht bereits Shakespeare 1594 in einem seiner Werke von "Pumps".

Budai Township, Taiwan
The High Heel Church
Visit this church that's shaped like a giant glass pump either to cater to women or to reference a tragic local tale. Or both.

Key West, Florida
Key West High Heel Shoe Drop
Leave it to Key West to drop a real-live drag queen instead of a ball to mark the arrival of the New Year

Mount Hood, Oregon
Mount Hood
Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels scores of people have died on its slopes

Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

High Heels and Low Heels

The High and Low Church party. The names of two factions in Swift’s tale of Lilliput. (Gulliver’s Travels.)

shoes, Sep 11, 2011

So, shoes. Hard to believe I've not blogged about them already! First slide, please: [from UK shoe retailer Office] This, in BrE is a court shoe. In AmE it would be a pump. (Or call them high heels wherever you are.)
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Definition von "High Heels"

Der Begriff "High Heels" wird teilweise synonym zu "Pumps" verwendet. In Wirklichkeit gehört dieser Schuhtyp zur Kategorie der Pumps. Ausnahme: Wenn die Schuhe an der Zehen- oder Fersenpartie geöffnet sind, handelt es sich nicht mehr um "Pumps", da diese stets geschlossen sind.

Wie hoch müssen Schuhe sein, damit von High Heels die Rede sein kann?

Diese Schuhart definiert sich dadurch, dass der Absatz der Schuhe mindestens 10 cm hoch ist.
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Was ist der Unterschied zu Stilettos?

"High Heels", "Stilettos" und "Stöckelschuhe" sind prinzipiell verschiedene Begriffe für ein und dieselbe Schuhart. Mit "Stilettos" sind allerdings so gut wie immer Schuhe mit Pfennigabsatz gemeint, während "High Heels" auch breitere Absätze besitzen können.

Was ist der Unterschied zwischen "High Heels" und "Skyscrapers"?

"Skyscrapers" sind Schuhe mit einem Absatz von mindestens 14 Zentimetern. Ein Schuh mit einem Absatz von 13 cm ist also noch ein "High Heel".
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High heels & the Paris Metro = une mauvais idee?

Monday, April 07, 2014
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High Heels: More strange images from my inbox. These shoes look like some kind of art project. I don't think it would be possible to walk in them.

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History Of High Heels

High heels date back to 3500 BC where they were depicted on Egyptian murals. They were worn by both men and women for ceremonial purposes. The ancient Greeks and Romans invented the platform shoes called buskins with high wooden cork soles. It was mainly worn by stage actors. By the Middle Ages, they started turning into an aesthetic object for women. Various patterns were created and they could be as high as 30 inches above the ground requiring canes to walk.
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Where Did High Heels Come From?
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As discussed in a recent episode of BBC’s The Why Factor, "high heels" point back to an unlikely source: men. For centuries, "high heels" were worn as a form of riding footwear, according to Elizabeth Semmelhack of the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto. The heel helped a rider secure his stance in the stirrups so he could shoot arrows more effectively; this was useful particularly in Persia (modern-day Iran), where the fighting style relied a great deal on good horsemanship.
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The first high heels
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Although high heeled shoes are depicted in ancient Egyptian murals on tombs and temples, the earliest recorded instance of men or women wearing an elevated shoe comes from Hellenic times. ... Around 1500, European nobility developed heels as a separate part of their shoes, primarily as a means to help keep their feet in the stirrups. ... Around 1660, a shoemaker named Nicholas Lestage designed high heeled shoes for Louis XIV. Some were more than four inches, and most were decorated in various battle scenes. The resulting high "Louis heels" subsequently became fashionable for ladies. Today the term is used to refer to heels with a concave curve and outward taper at the bottom similar to those worn by Madame de Pompadour, Louis XV's mistress. (They are also sometimes called "Pompadour heels".)
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High Heel

Marianne Faithfull - Horses and high heels

New York Dolls - Dancing backward in high heels

"Flip-Flops", "Pantoletten", "Pumps" und "High Heels" - Nicht jeder Schuh ist zum Autofahren geeignet!

High Heels-Göttin Sara ist neues Venus-Model

high heels fetish

High heels - Neologismus der 90er Jahre

Red High Heels - by Kellie Pickler

2006 - Country
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engl. "high heels" - dt. "Stöckelschuhe"

These actual high heels worn by this woman may become her (literary) Achilles' heel if they stop her from running from danger ... or from simply walking.

December 26, 2015
What Is Your Achilles' Heel?

Vineyards and High Heels, Winner Video Contest 2017

Latex (W3)

Mohair (W3)

"MOHAIR", subst. masc.: Étymol. et Hist. 1868 Mohair granité (Figaro, p.4, col.1, 19 février ds Bonn., p.95). Empr. à l'angl. mohair, v. moire étymologie.

mohair (n.)

1610s, earlier mocayre, 1560s, "fine hair of the Angora goat," also "a fabric made from this," from Middle French mocayart (16c.), Italian mocaiarro, both from Arabic mukhayyar "cloth of goat hair," literally "selected, choice," from khayyara "he chose." Spelling influenced in English by association with hair. Moire "watered silk" (1650s) probably represents English mohair borrowed into French and back into English.

"MOHAIR". A man in the civil line, a townsman, or tradesman: a military term, from the mohair buttons worn by persons of those descriptions, or any others not in the army, the buttons of military men being always of metal: this is generally used as a term of contempt, meaning a bourgeois, tradesman, or mechanic.

Les mots arabes, persans et turcs: ... mohair

kid mohair

mohair

mohair knickers

Capricorn Mohair Socks | Mohair Socks

Mohair Sam - by Charlie Rich

mots français d'origine non-latine
22. -- Arabe: mohair

no strings attached (W2)

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That string was put there by the cloth merchant, to indicate a slight flaw in the silk weave. You can only just, just see the flaw in the photo- a tiny light thin line going across the fabric, perpendicular to the string.
It was a very minor flaw, but that's how it works with the best merchants. Sometimes a piece of cloth will arrive at my door with a piece of string attached to it, and I won't be able to see the flaw unless I look VERY hard, sometimes more than once.
But these cloth merchants are extremely strict with themselves, which is how it should be.
So when I need a perfect, flawless length of cloth for a job, I'll say to the merchant, "Give me 3 metres, no strings attached."
Yes, that is where the phrase "No strings attached" comes from. And yes, it's still being used with its original meaning on Savile Row to this day.

off the cuff (W3)

Pattern (W3)

pattern | pattern drill

PATTERN, subst. masc.

Étymol. et Hist. 1922 (H. Piéron in L'Année psychol. ds Quem. DDL t.25). Empr. à l'angl. pattern «modèle, type, patron», forme altérée du moy. angl. patron, empr. au fr. patron*, cette forme s'étant spécialisée, dep. ca 1700, dans la désignation de choses alors que l'angl. patron subsistait pour parler de personnes (NED).

pattern | pattern board | patterned papers

pattern (n.)

early 14c., "outline, plan, model, pattern;" early 15c. as "model of behavior, exemplar," from Old French patron and directly from Medieval Latin patronus (see patron).

Extended sense of "decorative design" first recorded 1580s, from earlier sense of a "patron" as a model to be imitated. The difference in form and sense between patron and pattern wasn't firm till 1700s. Meaning "model or design in dressmaking" (especially one of paper) is first recorded 1792, in Jane Austen.

pattern (v.)

1580s, "to make a pattern for, design, plan," from pattern (n.). Meaning "to make something after a pattern" is c.1600. Phrase pattern after "take as a model" is from 1878.

pattern | pattern-matching character

Pattern | Pattern Day Trader

Pattern | Pattern Day Trader

pattern | pattern element

pattern (definition), Definition: A finite number of strings that are searched for in texts.
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This is a collection of seat patterns on public transport.

• pattern (n.) 1 picture, model, specimen, example
• pattern (n.) 2 precedent, previous example
• pattern (v.) 1 parallel, match, equal
• pattern (v.) 2 show a model, give a precedent
• pattern out (v.) be a pattern for, act as a precedent for

Sitzmuster-Sammlung

Public transport seat's pattern archive.

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A pattern is the formalization of a problem/solution pair, used to make an object-oriented design decision.
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pattern recognition

Pattern | Pattern of Two Loci

Pumps
Pump (W3)

shoelace
laccio
lazo
Lasso (W3)

Fun, fashion & science in this quirky site about shoelaces. Whether you want to learn to lace shoes, tie shoelaces, stop shoelaces from coming undone, calculate shoelace lengths or even repair aglets, Ian's Shoelace Site has the answer!

Lacing Shoes | Tying Shoelaces | Slipping Shoelaces? | Crooked Shoelaces? | Shoelace Lengths | Shoelace Tips | Shoelace Books | Shoelace Polls | Shoelace F.A.Q. | Shoelace Links

• Lacing Methods: Criss Cross | Over Under | Straight (European) | Straight (Fashion) | Straight (Lazy) | Bushwalk / Cycling | Sawtooth | Shoe Shop | Display Shoe | Ladder | Double Back | Bow Tie | Double Helix | Double Cross | Hash | Lattice | Zipper | Riding Boot | One Handed | Segmented | Knotted Segment | Hidden Knot | Bi-Colour | Double | Checkerboard | Loop Back | Knotted | Twistie | Roman | Footbag | Lock
• Lug Lacing Methods: Basic Lug Lacing | Lug Infinity 8 | Lug Bushwalk/Cyc. | Lug Shoe Shop | Lug Ladder | Lug Double Back | Lug Bow Tie | Lug Hash | Lug Lattice | Lug Zipper | Lug Segmented | Lug Knotted Seg. | Lug Double | Lug Loop Back | Lug Knotted | Lug Twistie

slipshod (W3)

sockshop.co.uk
Sock-Index

• A: Anatomically Shaped Socks | Angling | Angora Socks | Ankle and Knee High Hosiery | Argyle | Aristoc |
• B: Back Seam Hosiery | Ballet Products | Bamboo | Bamboo Underwear | Basketball | Bed & Slipper Socks For Ladies | Belts | Bestsellers | | Big Feet? | Birthday Socks | Black | Blue | Body Stockings | Boxers For Men | Boys Socks | Bridal Hosiery | Bridgedale | Briefs For Men | Brown | Burlington | Business Socks |
• C: Calvin Klein | | Cartoon Socks | Cashmere | Charity Socks | Charnos | Chunky Socks For Ladies | Chunky Socks For Men | Colourful Colour Burst Socks | Compression Socks | Control Tights | Corgi | Cotton | Cream | Cricket | Cushioned Socks | Cycling |
• D: Dance Products | Diabetic Socks |
• E: Elbeo | Elle | Equestrian |
• F: Fairtrade | Falke | Farah | Farah Briefs | Farah Boxers | Father's Day Gifts | Fashion Hosiery | Fastshop For Busy Men>Fishing | Fishnets | Five G | Flight Socks | Flip Flops | Fold Up Shoes | Foot & Leg Care | Football Socks | Footless Tights | Fraas | Fuller Figure Hosiery |
• G: Gentle Grip | Gift Ideas For Kids | Gift Ideas For Ladies | Gift Ideas For Men | Girls Socks | Glenmuir | Gloves | Golf | Green | Grey |
• H: Halloween | Handlinked Toe Seam Socks | Hats | Heat Holders | Hiking Socks | HJ Hall | Horse Riding | Hold Ups | Hosiery |
• I: Insoles | Invisible Socks | Isotoner |
• J: J Alex Swift | Jeep | Jeep Trunks | Jeep Boxers | Jeep Thermal Underwear | Jeff Banks | Jockey | John Smedley | Jonathan Aston |
• K: Kickers | Kids Socks | Kikiyo | Knee & Ankle High Hosiery | Knee High Socks For Ladies |
• L: Ladies Socks | Left & Right Socks | Leg Warmers | Leggings/Footless Tights | Levante | Luxury |
• M: Macwet | Made in the UK | Manchester United | Maternity Tights | Mens Socks | | Mother's Day Socks | Mountain Biking |
• N: Name Socks | New Arrivals | Nike | Non Lycra | Novelty Socks |
• O: Office Socks | Opaques | Orange | Organic & Natural | Over The Knee Socks For Ladies |
• P: Pantherella | Patterned Office & Suit Socks | Patterned Socks For Ladies | Personalised Socks For Ladies | Personalised Socks For Men | Peter Jones | Pink | Plain Office & Suit Socks | Plain Socks For Ladies | Pretty Polly | Pringle | Pringle Trunks | Pringle Boxers | Pringle Of Scotland | Purple | Purses | Puma |
• Q:
• R: Racket Sports | Red | Riding | Rollasole | Rugby Socks | Running |
• S: Sailing | Sale | Scarves | Scholl | School Socks | Scott Nichol | SealSkinz | Seamless Toes | Seductive | Shapers Hosiery | Sheer Hosiery | Shoeliners | Shooting | Silky | Skiing | Slippers | Slipper & Bed Socks For Ladies | Slipper Socks For Men | Sloggi | Snowboarding Socks | SockShop | SockShop Of London | Soft Top Socks | Sports Socks For Kids | Sports Socks For Ladies | Sports Socks For Men | Sports Underwear | Stockings | Striped Office & Suit Socks | Suit Socks | Support Hosiery | Suspender Tights |
• T: T Shirts For Men | Tall Hosiery | Tennis | Thermals | Thermal Underwear | Thorlos | Tipsy Feet | Toe Socks | Totes | Trainer Socks For Ladies | Trasparenze | Trunks For Men |
• U: UK Made | Under Armour | Underwear For Ladies | Underwear For Men | Union Jack Items | Urban Knit |
• V: Vests For Men |
• W: Walking Socks | Wallets | Waterproof | Watersports | Wedding Hosiery | Wedding Socks | Welly Socks | White | Winter Warm Tights | Womens Socks | Wool | Workforce> | Wristbands |
• X:
• Y: Yellow |
• Z:

Tassel (W3)

Die "Troddel", plur. die -n, ein herab hangender Faden oder anderer ähnlicher beweglicher Theil. So werde bey den Webern einiger Gegenden, die Fäden an Weberstuhle von dem am Ende abgeschnittenen Gewirke, woran der Aufzug des künftigen Gewebes geknüpft wird, Troddeln genannt. In den meisten Gegenden heißen sie "Trumme", Nieders. "Dromt". Die hervor stehende langen Fäden an manchen Arten des Gewirkes, z. B. an Mützen und Strümpfen, heißen gleichfalls "Troddeln"; die "Troddelmütze", "Troddelstrümpfe". Noch häufiger sind die Troddeln kleine Quasten von Knötchen, Schmelz, Korallen u. s. f. verschiedene Arten Kleidungsstücke auszuzieren.

Anm. Der Grund der Benennung liegt ohne Zweifel in der Beweglichkeit, so daß man dieses Wort als einen Verwandten von "rütteln" ansehen kann. Indessen kann auch das in einigen gemeinen Sprecharten übliche "ausdrötteln", für "ausdrieseln", die Fäden eines Gewirkes ausziehen, mit in Betrachtung kommen. Die Schreibarten "Trottel" oder "Drottel", sind wider die Hochdeutsche Aussprache. Im Nieders. heißt eine "Troddel" "Tost", Engl. "Tassel", welches den Begriff der Verbindung, der Masse hat, und zum Franz. "Tas", ein Haufe, gehöret. S. auch "Trollen".

Dickens, Susan: Tassels

TASSEL (s.xii4/4)

tasseal; tasel
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"Tassel", große Mantelschließe des 13. und frühen 14. Jh., entstanden aus paarig angeordneten Scheibenfibeln, die mit dem Fürspan(n), einer Kette, Kordel oder einem Band, verbunden wurden.

Mit solch großen Schließen zusammengehaltene, von Männern und Frauen getragene umhangförmige Radmäntel heißen "Tasselmäntel". Der so genannte Bamberger Reiter z. B. trägt einen "Tasselmantel". Kleinere Tasseln sind bei der Trachtenkleidung bis heute in Mode.

"Tassel": Mantelschließe des 13. und beginnenden 14. Jh.

Entstanden aus zwei Scheibenfibeln die mit dem Fürspan einer Kette, Kordel oder einem Band verbunden waren. Von Männern und Frauen getragene umhangförmige Radmäntel heißen "Tasselmäntel". Heute noch in der Trachtenmode gebräuchlich.

Emilia - Cupid’s shaving brush, tasselflower

• noun
• 1. a pendent ornament consisting commonly of a bunch of threads, small cords, or other strands hanging from a roundish knob or head, used on clothing, in jewelry, on curtains, etc.
• 2. something resembling this, as the inflorescence of certain plants, especially that at the summit of a stalk of corn.
• verb (used with object), tas·seled, tas·sel·ing or (especially British) tas·selled, tas·sel·ling.
• 3. to furnish or adorn with tassels.
• 4. to form into a tassel or tassels.
• 5. to remove the tassel from (growing corn) in order to improve the crop.
• verb (used without object), tas·seled, tas·sel·ing or (especially British) tas·selled, tas·sel·ling.
• 6. (of corn) to put forth tassels (often followed by out).

"tassel" (n.), c. 1300, "mantle fastener", from Old French "tassel" = engl. "tassel", "fringe", "hem"; "a fastening", "clasp" (12c., Modern French "tasseau"), from Vulgar Latin "*tassellus", said to be from Latin "taxillus" = "small die or cube", a diminutive of "talus" "knucklebone" (used as a die in gaming), "ankle" (see "talus" (n.1)).

But OED finds this doubtful and calls attention to the variant form "tossel" and suggests association with "toss" (v.).

Meaning "hanging bunch of small cords" is first recorded late 14c.

Entries related to "tassel"

• talus
• toss

"tassel loafer"

Etymology: ter.ing.

Mocassino rifinito con nappine, può avere coulisse o con una serie di occhielli lungo tutto il bordo, dove viene inserito un laccio, legato sul davanti

"Tassel" (mhd.; v. afrz. "tassiel"; mlat. "tassellus"). Schließe am Halsausschnitt des langen Frauenmantels von halbrundem Schnitt (12. - 14.Jh.), die üblicherweise als Schmuckstück ausgebildet war. Der Name der "Tassel" ging auf den Mantel über ("Tasselmantel"). Die Schmuckschließe galt als Zeichen der Ehrbarkeit und von daher war es Dienen verboten, sie zu tragen. Ausweislich zeitgenössischer Darstellungen galt es bei vornehmen Damen als schicke Pose, zwei Finger in die Tassel-Schnur einzuhaken.

Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida [V, 1] - Thersites, 2960:

No! why art thou then exasperate, thou idle
immaterial skein of sleave-silk, thou green sarcenet
flap for a sore eye, thou "tassel" of a prodigal's
purse, thou? Ah, how the poor world is pestered
with such waterflies, diminutives of nature!

"tassel" (n.) - Old form(s): "tassell" - ornamental fringe - Headword location(s): TC V.i.29, [Thersites to Patroclus] thou tassel of a prodigal's purse [F tassell; Q toslell]

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Von Marias Schultern fällt auf Holbeins Gemälde ein offener, von einer roten "Tassel" zusammengehaltener Umhang, den sie um die zu ihren Füßen knienden Beter gebreitet hat.
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• "Tassel flower" - tropical Asiatic annual cultivated for its small tassel-shaped heads of scarlet flowers
• "tassel flower" - tropical African annual having scarlet tassel-shaped flower heads; sometimes placed in genus Cacalia
• "tassel flower" - young leaves widely used as leaf vegetables; seeds used as cereal

• taiseaul tassel tas
• taiseaul tassel1
• taisses tassel tas
• taissiaus tassel tas
• tasel tassel1
• Tasel tassel1
• tasiel tassel1
• tasseal tassel1
• tasseelier tasselier tassel1
• tasseïz tasselëiz tas
• tasses tassel1
• Tasses tassel1
• tassiau tassel1
• tassiaus tassel1
• tassiax tassel1
• tassiel tassel1
• taxias tassel1
• tesel tassel1

TASSEL (1) m. - “plaque de métal attachée des 2 côtés du manteau à la hauteur des épaules et sur laquelle on fixe le cordon qui retient le manteau”

• TASSEL (1)
• ratasseler v.
• retasseler v.
• tasselé adj.
• tasseleor m.
• tasseler adj.
• entasseler v.
• entasseleüre f.
• tesselier m.

TASSEL (2) m. - “allusion à un traître célèbre” (TilLex, TL 10, 133; FEW 17, 638 a)

[FEW 17, 638 a germ. "TASSILO" – TL 10, 133; FEW 17, 638 a. – TilLex.]

Tutu
(W3)

Ballerina Clown

Venice, California

A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers

"Archbishop Tutu" officially approved his rose, which was presented to him on his 75th birthday. (Photo: Cara Giaimo)

"Desmond", m, English, Irish

Anglicized form of Irish "Deasmhumhain" meaning "south Munster", referring to the region of Desmond in southern Ireland, formerly a kingdom. It can also come from the related surname (an Anglicized form of "Ó Deasmhumhnaigh"), which indicated a person who came from that region. A famous bearer is the South African archbishop and activist "Desmond Tutu" (1931-2021).

Leah Tutu (Shrub Rose)

Introduced as a tribute to Leah, wife of Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

Desmond Tutu

"tutu", noun, a short, full skirt, usually made of several layers of tarlatan or tulle, worn by ballerinas.

Word History and Origins

Origin of "tutu"

Borrowed into English from French around 1925–30

"tutu" (n.)

ballet skirt made up of layers of stiff frills, 1910, from French "tutu", alteration of "cucu", infantile reduplication of "cul" = "bottom", "backside", from Latin "culus" = "bottom", "backside", "fundament" (from PIE "*kuh-lo-" = "backside", "rear"; source also of Old Irish "cul" = "back", Welsh "cil" = "corner", "angle"), but the ultimate origin is obscure [de Vaan].

also from 1910

"Archbishop Desmond Tutu" (shrub, Kordes 2000) - Floribunda, Shrub. Dark red. Moderate fragrance. Large, double (17-25 petals), borne mostly solitary, cluster-flowered, in small clusters, cupped bloom form. Blooms in flushes throughout the season. USDA zone 6b through 9b (default). Height of up to 3' (up to 90 cm). Width of up to 30" (up to 75 cm). W. Kordes & Sons (2006).

"Tutu Mauve"

• Bred by André Delbard-Chabert (1915-2012) (France, before 1962).
• Introduced in France by Delbard/Georges Delbard SA in 1963 as 'Tutu Mauve'.
• Introduced in Australia by Roy H. Rumsey Pty. Ltd. in 1974 as 'Tutu Mauve'.

Floribunda. - Fuchsia / magenta, mauve shading. Moderate fragrance. 30 petals. Average diameter 4". Large, full (26-40 petals), classic hybrid tea, ruffled bloom form. Blooms in flushes throughout the season.

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A "tutu" (the thing that ballerinas wear) is a "bum-bum", or an "arse-arse" if you prefer. Or, if you are of the American persuasion, I suppose it's an "ass-ass". It's an alteration of "cucu", which is itself a shortening of "cul-cul", which is French for "arse-arse". The French are terribly relaxed about such things, the British, thank God, are uptight and anxious. The very first mention of the "tutu" in 1910 said:

She wished to exhibit what in technical slang is called le "tutu", a term descriptive of the abbreviated costume and possessed also of a secondary meaning.

And that secondary meaning was "arse". (If, by the way, you were wondering what a "tutu" was called in Britain before 1910, it was a parasol-skirt).

The French are always inserting their "arses" into the English language. There is, for example, the "cul-de-sac" which literally means "arse of a bag" and which sneaks onto English street signs without anybody noticing. Before this disgusting French term was introduced, the English had a much better, cleaner native term for a "dead end"; we called it a "butt-hole". Indeed, the Oxford English Dictionary's butt-hole entry lists this as the only meaning.
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Topic: "To-do" and "tutu"

Back on this date in 1827 [February 7], a French dance company brought ballet to the Bowery. More specifically, the ballet company traveled to New York City's Bowery Theater and introduced America to the theatrical dancing art form. That initial performance of "The Deserter" ended in a bit of a to-do: some members of the audience left in a huff, scandalized by the scanty attire worn onstage.

We won't desert those longing to know if there's a linguistic link between the "to-do" of the disgruntled audience and the "tutu" worn by the onstage dancers. There's no dancing around this issue: the only connection between the two to-terms is superficial. The "to-do" naming a "bustle", "stir", or "fuss" comes from the verb "to do" meaning "necessary to be done". The "tutu" that names the skirt worn by ballerinas comes from French: "tutu" means "backside" in French babytalk.

Does that mean American audiences were viewing the backsides of the French corps de ballet? Probably not. Back then, ballerinas were more likely to have been dressed in "tutu taglioni", long swirling skirts whose name honors "Marie Taglioni", an Italian dancer whose traditional claim to fame is being the first dancer known to dance en pointe, that is, on the very tips of her toes.

"tutu", noun: a short projecting skirt worn by a ballerina
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Etymology: French, from (baby talk) "tutu" = "backside"

First Known Use: 1913, in the meaning defined above
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"tutu Taglioni", noun: an ankle-length tutu

Etymology: after Maria Taglioni †1884 Italian ballet dancer
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Tutu Mauve

Very low grower, neat bloom.

Pokorny Etymon: "tu", "tutu" - onomatopoeic: "chirping of bird"
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Desmond Tutu South African prelate and leader of the antiapartheid struggle (born in 1931)

"tutu"

Etymology 1: Tutu (clothing) on Wikipedia - Borrowed from French "tutu", from "cucu" (“bum", "bottom”), playful reduplication of "cul" (“arse”). - A ballet skirt made of layered stiff but light netting.

Etymology 2: Borrowed from Maori "tutu". - (New Zealand) Any of certain members of genus Coriaria of shrubs and trees found in New Zealand, including Coriaria arborea and Coriaria pottsiana, used by the Maori to make a sweetener, but toxic when not properly prepared. - Synonyms: "toot plant", "tupakihi" - Derived terms: "tutin"

Etymology 3: From Maori "tutu" (“mischievous", "disobedient”). - "tutu" (third-person singular simple present "tutus", present participle "tutuing", simple past and past participle "tutued") - (New Zealand, childish) to fiddle or mess around with something.
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Duck and cover.
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Hey dude, I'm there. Ballet rules! A "tutu", of course, is a type of skirt worn by female ballet dancers.

A "tutu" is a ballet skirt made up of layers of frills, and there are evidently actually two main types of "tutu": the longer "romantic tutu", which reaches halfway down the dancer's calves, and the very short "classic tutu", which stands pretty much straight out from the hips. According to Dame Margot Fonteyn's 1980 book The Magic of Dance, the "classic" "tutu" is actually the more recent of the two styles: "The soft, full ballet skirt Marie Taglioni had introduced climbed to just below the knee, then to mid-thigh. As it was shortened, it was made fuller and stood out more and more stiffly until it became the modern tutu."

"Tutu" first appeared as an English word around 1910, drawn directly from the French "le tutu" as a name for the ballet dress, and here's where things start to get a little odd. "Tutu" in French is actually what the Oxford English Dictionary calls a "childish alteration of", how a small child would pronounce, the word "cucu". (A similar instance in English is the British term "twee", meaning "overly precious or saccharine", which originated as a child's pronunciation of the word "sweet".)

The French word "cucu" is, in turn, a diminutive form of the word "cul", which means "bottom" or "backside", the portion of a dancer's anatomy that the classic "tutu" does a less than perfect job of concealing.

whale tail
longhorn (W3)

"Whale Tail" ist ein aus Hose oder Rock herausschauender Tanga-Slip, "the appearance of thong or g-string underwear above the waistband of pants, shorts, or a skirt". Er wurde - wie sonst - zunächst von Stars wie Britney Spears und Anna Kournikova vorgeführt und wurde so zu einer Modeerscheinung.

zip
ZIP (W3)

• ZIP - Phonetisch für Zischen eines Reissverschlusses (englisch)
• ZIP - "Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht und Insolvenzpraxis" Fachzeitschrift
• ZIP - Zig-Zag Inline Package (englisch) Preiswerte Wechselplatten der Fa. Iomega
• ZIP - Zone Information Protocol (englisch)
• ZIP - Zukunftsinvestitionsprogramm des BMWA