英和和英

形容詞

sleaved (not comparable)

1. Raw; not spun or wrought.

   sleaved thread or silk

   • 1695, Gervase Markham, A Way to get Wealth, page 133:

     The cure is, with a fine small wiar little stronger then a Verginal wiar, and wrapt close about with a soft sleaved silk, and the point blunt and pliantness of the wiar will easily do;

   • 1846, Hannah Flagg Gould, Gathered Leaves: Or, Miscellaneous Papers, page 287:

     Under the tip of one of the wings, I discovered the end of a fine filament like sleaved silk.

   • 1864, Sir Richard Fanshawe, “The Spring, A Sonnet”, in George Gilfillan, editor, Nichol's Library Edition of the British Poets, page 43:

     Those whiter lilies which the early morn Seems to have newly woven of sleavèd silk, To which, on banks of wealthy Tagus born, Gold was their cradle, liquid pearl their milk.

   • 2001, ‎Mildmay Fane Earl of Westmorland, ‎Tom Cain, The Poetry of Mildmay Fane, Second Earl of Westmoreland, page 94:

     Why is sleaved Silk soe hard

   • 2016, S. Adshead, China in World History, page 216:

     Richard Hakluyt in his catalogue of the cargo of the Madre de Dios, a typical carrack captured by the English in 1592, lists 'silks, damasks, taffetas, sarcenets, altobassos, that is, counterfeit cloth of gold, unwrought China silks, sleaved silk, white twisted silk, curled cypresse', […]