etwee
English
Noun
etwee (plural etwees)
- Obsolete form of étui.
- a. 1763, William Shenstone, Economy: A Rhapsody, addressed to young poets
- The twinkling jewels, and the gold etwee,
With all its bright inhabitants
- The twinkling jewels, and the gold etwee,
- 1791 June 1, John Ireland, “The Harlot’s Progress. Plate I.”, in Hogarth Illustrated, volume I, [London]: J[ohn] & J[osiah] Boydell […], OCLC 863384324, pages 4–5:
- From the inn she is taken to the house of the procuress, divested of her home-spun garb, and dressed in the gayest style of the day; her pincushion and scissars discarded for an etwee and watch, and the tender native hue of her complexion incrusted with paint, and disguised by patches.
- a. 1763, William Shenstone, Economy: A Rhapsody, addressed to young poets
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for etwee in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)