Meanings
nounlanifice (plural lanifices)
plural lanifices
- obsoleteAnything made of wool, or woolworking.
The moth breedeth upon cloth and other lanifices; especially if they be laid up dankish and wet.
1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC1 more example
If the lanifice (woollen manufacture) of Mende at least staggered into the closing years of the ancien regime, it only did so in a purely nominal sense.
1974, Olwen H. Hufton, The poor of eighteenth-century France, 1750-1789
Origin
- Old Frenchlanifice
- Latinlanificium
- Englishlanifice
From Latin lanificium: compare Old French lanifice.
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