单词 | cross-caper |
释义 | † ˈcross-ˈcaper Obs. [cross- 9.] ? Some kind of caper or movement in dancing; cf. cross-cut, cross-point n. Said usually of a tailor, and often fig. in application.
1622Massinger Virg. Mart. iv. i, Had a tailor seen her At this advantage, he, with his cross capers, Had ruffled her by this. 1627F. E. Hist. Edw. II (1680) 31 His ends go not their ways, but with Cross-capers. 1634Ford P. Warbeck ii. iii, Sketon [a tailor]. For fashioning of shapes and cutting a cross-caper, turn me off to my trade again. 1783Ainsworth Lat. Dict. (Morell) i. s.v. Caper, A cross caper, Subsultatio. Hence † cross-ˈcaperer.
1607Dekker Knts. Conjur. (1842) 36 All the crosse-caperers beeing plac'd in strong rankes and an excellent oration cut out..perswading them to sweat out their braines in deuising new cuts, new French collers [etc.]. |

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