单词 | Vici |
释义 | Vici N. Amer.|ˈvaɪsaɪ| Also vici. [perh. a. L. vīcī, pa. tense of vincere to conquer.] The name of a chrome-tanned kid leather used for shoes and boots. Freq. attrib., esp. as Vici kid. Formerly a proprietary name in the U.S.
1888Shoe & Leather Reporter 19 July 133/3 Robert H. Foerderer courts the smiles of fortune with a horseshoe enclosing the word ‘vici’. 1891Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 13 Oct. 128/2 Kid, goat, and similar light weight leathers... The word ‘Vici’. 1904‘O. Henry’ in Everybody's Mag. Feb. 187/1 He was the color of vici kid, and his whiskers was like excelsior made out of mahogany wood. 1906Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 6 Jan. 12/7 (Advt.), Men's Vici Kid Shoes. 1937H. H. Kroll I was Sharecropper x. 193, I had a pair of vici kid shoes for two dollars and a half. 1946Harper's Mag. Oct. 311/1 There..would be Pa in his Sunday clothes and vici shoes. 1946H. R. Quimby Pacemakers of Progress vi. 115 Dressing high boots were often made with tops of silk or thin kid..; the lower parts were of patent leather or vici kid in black, bronze, white, or a color. |

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