garlick

plural garlicks

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of garlic.

   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!

   1690, [John] Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: […], London: […] Jo. Hindmarsh, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number)

plural garlicks

1. historicalA (type of) linen cloth historically exported from Germany.

   She chose one piece of garlick in November 1723 and one piece of silk crape from the same shipment in December the following year. Garlick was an imported linen cloth, very popular and used for ...

   2014, Christina J. Hodge, Consumerism and the Emergence of the Middle Class in Colonial America, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 134

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   ... 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, ...

   2009, C. Klekar, The Culture of the Gift in Eighteenth-Century England, Springer, →ISBN, page 70

   Garlicks, Isinghams, Irish and Russia Cloth; fine Bag and rough Hollands, fine Cambricks, and Muslins, plain and strip'd ... Ann Porter sold second-hand childbed linen and clothing for the poor, which would have been bought by the ...

   2010, Nicholas Brownlees, Gabriella Del Lungo, John Denton, The Language of Public and Private Communication in a Historical Perspective, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 165

   Scarlett, blue, & Superfine Broad Cloth” (Pringle 1972, 1:31). Coarse cloth, checks, garlick, osnaburg, dowlas, Russia linen, and plains were cheap linen and woolen fabrics for working men and women and the enslaved.

   2013, Kathleen A. Staples, Madelyn C. Shaw, Clothing Through American History: The British Colonial Era, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 141

plural Garlicks

1. A surname.