chitterling
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]When ironed out, the frill resembled the small entrails, or chitterlings.
Noun
[edit]chitterling (plural chitterlings)
- (obsolete) The frill to the breast of a shirt.
- a. 1621, John Harland, Shuttleworth Family, The House and Farm Accounts of the Shuttleworths of Gawthorpe Hall, in the County of Lancaster, at Smithils and Gawthorpe: From September 1582 to October 1621:
- And some wear lattice caps with three horns, three corners I should say, like the forked caps of popish priests, with their periwinkles, chitterlings, and the like apish toys of infinite variety
- A single piece of chitterlings (intestine used as food).
References
[edit]- “chitterling”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.