Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
peasecod .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The legume or pericarp, or the pod, of the pea.
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- noun The
legume orpericarp , or thepod , of thepea .
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Examples
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His flat soft ruff, composed of many layers of lace, hung over a thick blue satin doublet, slashed with rose-colored taffeta and embroidered with pearls, the front of which was brought to a point hanging over the front of his hose in what was known as a peascod shape.
The Panchronicon Harold Steele MacKaye 1897
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He has only his hedcosycasket on and his wollsey shirtplisse with peascod doublet, also his feet wear doubled width socks for he always must to insure warm sleep between a pair of fullyfleeced bankers like a finnoc in a cauwl.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Well, fare thee well: I have known thee these twenty-nine years, come peascod-time; but an honester and truer-hearted man, — well, fare thee well.
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He who has no romantic dreams at twenty-one will be a horribly dry peascod at fifty; therefore it is that I gaze reverently at all
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 Various
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Bunches of grapes are frequently worked solidly, and even the popular peascod is worked in outline stitch, and often the petit point period lace stitches are copied, and roses and birds worked separately and after stitched to the design.
Chats on Old Lace and Needlework Emily Leigh Lowes
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Kate's dainty thumb strips the row of peas out of a peascod.
The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough
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Well, fare thee well: I have known thee these twenty-nine years, come peascod-time; but an honester, and truer-hearted man, well, fare thee well.
Act II. Scene IV. The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth 1914
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Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy; as a squash is before tis a peascod, or a codling when tis almost an apple: tis with him in standing water, between boy and man.
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Tell them, Fool, that when the life and the mind are broken the truth comes through them like peas through a broken peascod.
The Unicorn from the Stars and Other Plays Lady Gregory 1897
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Tell them, Fool, that when the life and the mind are broken, the truth comes through them like peas through a broken peascod.
The Hour Glass 1897
hernesheir commented on the word peascod
Lest we forget, a 1651 (recorded) English country dance entitled "Gathering Peascods" is still danced today to music historically associated with that particular dance.
Cf. peasecod, pesecod, etc. - archaic words for the pod of the pea plant, pregnant at maturity, which were anciently used as a divination of love prospects.
See also peascod wooing, and Peascod doublet.
November 19, 2010
hernesheir commented on the word peascod
Go pipe at Pedley, there's a peascod feast - an old saying from Cheshire, England, spoken as reproof to those persons who made themselves extremely busy in trifles and matters that did not concern them. Recorded in Francis Grose's A Provincial Glossary.
May 2, 2011