| 释义 | † ˈplunket, n.1 and a. Obs.
Forms: 4 plunkett, 4–7 plonket, 5 -ete, -eut, -ett, plounkette, 5–6 ploncket, 5–8 plunket, (6 plumket, pluncket).
[ME. plonket, plunket, app. derived from OF. plunkié (1254), plonquié lead-coloured, lead-grey, also a kind of grey cloth (pa. pple. of plonquier to cover with lead:—late L. *plumbicāre, f. plumbum lead: see plunge v.).
The ending -et may be the earlier form of -é; but cf. other names of coloured fabrics, as blanket, bluet, burnet, russet, watchet. See also blunket (app. an alteration of this, perh. associated with blanket); also plumbet.]
A. n. A woollen fabric of varying texture, app. of a grey or light blue colour. Cf. blunket n.
1375–6Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 582 Pro xij uln. de plunkett. 1377–8Ibid. 586, xiij uln. de Plonket empt. pro tunicis, pro pagettis xiij s. 1466Mann. & Househ. Exp. (Roxb.) 493 My master delyverd..xviij. yerdes of fyne plonket..to dye into fyne morrey engreyned. 1483Act 1 Rich. III, c. 8 §4 That this Acte..extende not..to the makynge..of eny clothe called Vervise, otherwise called Plounkettes Turkyns or Celestrines, with broade Lists. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII 22 Sodainly the Mount opened, and out came sixe ladies all in Crimosin satin and plunket, enbroudered with Golde and perle. 1616Bullokar Eng. Expos., Plonkets, a kind of wollen cloth. 1721C. King Brit. Merch. II. 96 What is become of our noble Manufacture of Plunkets, Violets, and Blues, formerly made in Suffolk? 1876J. R. Planché Cycl. Costume I. 402.
B. adj. Of a greyish blue colour; light blue. Cf. blunket a.
c1440Promp. Parv. 406/1 Plunket (K. P. coloure), jacinctus. 1465–6Mann. & Househ. Exp. (Roxb.) 329, xxiij. narow clothes called statutes, of the..color of red viij., and of the colour of plonkeut xv. 1496Bk. St. Albans, Fishing (1883) 10 Lete woode your heer in an woodefatte a lyght plunket colour. 1543Grafton Coutn. Harding 596 In two or thre places the saied sleues were cut, and fastened together againe with a plunket ryband. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII 50 The Duke of Vaudosme and his bende in clothe of golde, and pluncket veluet. 1560Plumket [see plumbet, quot. 1533]. |
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