The raw materials used for the cloth were also produced in a parallel fashion to how the cloth was woven: those with money could buy nicer thread made with exotic and expensive materials like silk in the market, and those without could spin wool or flax at home.
Homespun referred to a type of plain weave cloth that was woven using thread spun at home, and because plain weave cloth is plain , the word homespun also came to refer to anything rustic, simple, or unsophisticated.
Because of this, the phrase by the book came to refer to things that were done as if memorized. What is it about Banbury cheese that makes it so objectionable? Banbury cheese is a strong, yellow cheese that was made appropriately in the town of Banbury in Oxfordshire, England.
In The Merry Wives of Windsor , a minor character calls Abraham Slender a Banbury cheese in mockery of his name and, one assumes, his slenderness. Evidently, there was enough call for Banbury cheese that it made it into a 16th century recipe book:. To make a tarte of Cheese MAKE your tart, and then take Banberie Cheese, and pare away the outside of it, and cut the cleane cheese in small peeces and put them into the Tart, and when your Tart is full of Cheese: then put two handfuls of sugar into your Tart vpon your cheese, and cast in it fiue or sixe spoonfuls of Rosewater, and close it vp with a couer, and with a feather lay sweet molten Butter vpon it, and fine sugar, and bake it in a soft Ouen.
Students who progressed to university were taught more than the rudiments of reading and writing: they were given a classical liberal arts education, spending time reading Latin authors and studying math, rhetoric, and grammar.
As such, grammars focused on Latin words and constructions, including the Latin prefixes and suffixes. The collocation in compound was lifted straight from grammar books of the day, where an enterprising student would learn the rules that restricted when -as could be used in compound with another word, or as a suffix to a root word. What about the syllables?
At this point in time, words weren't taught letter by letter, but syllable by syllable. This literary joke boils down to this: in nearly everything that the tribunes "worships" have said, this character finds proof that they are, through and through, ah When Shakespeare was writing, the prevailing belief was that there were four bodily fluids, or humors , whose balance not only affected your health, but your character.
For instance, a person who had too much blood was sanguine , or cheerful or courageous. Changeable, capricious, erratic, 3. Hostile, contrary, antagonistic Weedy adj - Made of weeds Weeping-ripe adj - Ready to weep, on the point of tears Young-eyed adj - Having the bright or lively eyes of a young person. Frequently figurative chiefly poetic : energetic lively, enthusiastic; naive; new. Sources Onion, C. A Shakespeare glossary; enlarged and revised throughout by Robert D.
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