garlick

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Obsolete spelling of garlic. alt-of,obsolete
    — He may make a shift to sow lettuce, raise melons, and water a garden-plat; but otherwise, a very filthy fellow: how odiously he smells of his country garlick!
  2. A (type of) linen cloth historically exported from Germany. historical
    — ... Segathies, Callimancoes, Stuffs, Hats, Silk, Worsted, and Thread Stockings, Hollands, Cambricks, Lawns, Muslin, Dowlasses, Garlicks, Damask Table Linen, Diaper Ditto, several Sorts of Manchester Goods, English and Italian Mantuas, ...

词形变化

garlicks plural garlicks plural

词源

A corruption of a placename, probably German Görlitz in Silesia (whence early spellings like garlits), or possibly Dutch Gulik (the Duchy of Jülich, suggested by early spellings like gulix).
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