threaden
English
Etymology
From Middle English threden, thredyn (“made of thread”), equivalent to thread + -en (made of).
Adjective
threaden (not comparable)
- (archaic) Made of or woven from thread.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, “A Louers Complaint”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
- threaden fillet
- 1811, Tobias George Smollett, The Critical Review:
- Thy gloves they were made of a threaden stitch,
Thou kept on thy hands to hide the itch; […]
- 1861, Thomas Adams, The Works of Thomas Adams:
- That kindness plungeth him into a deeper bondage; the first was but a threaden snare, which he might break, but this is an infrangible chain of iron.
- 1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- Your feet in mouldy slippers, for your kibes,
A felt of rug, and a thin threaden cloak,
That scarce would cover your no-buttocks— […]
References
- “threaden”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.