Coburg
(ˈkəʊbɜːg)
Also Cobourg.
1. A thin fabric of worsted and cotton or worsted and silk, twilled on one side; an imitation of merino, for ladies' dresses.
| 1844 Cheltenham Chron. 10 Oct. 2/7 (Advt.), Cobourg and Orleans cloths. 1864 Rossetti Let. 12 Nov. (1965) II. 527, I shall bring..a dress for Maggie... It is a sort of brown Coburg. 1882 Beck Draper's Dict., Coburg, introduced shortly after her Majesty's marriage with Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg; most probably aiming at popularity through that event. It was merely a modification of what had previously been known as Paramatta cloth. |
2. A two-wheeled covered carriage or cart, used esp. in the country. Also attrib.
| 1824 Act 5 Geo. IV c. 114 §78 For every..Coburg, and for every other Carriage hung on Springs, the Sum of Sixpence for each Wheel. 1847 J. Leech Church Goer 198 Along the main road, and from every bye-road, came coburgs, cars, and all kinds or rural vehicles. 1850 Ibid. 66 A kind of Cobourg (I think you call it,) or market-cart..passed me. 1851 Catal. Great Exhib. I. 255/1 No. 819 Chard & Munro, Bristol..A Coburg conveyance. 1857 Elton Below the Surface I. x. 223 The mob suffered no one to precede them, turning back or forcibly detaining every horseman, or spring-cart, or farmer's coburgh that overtook them on the road. Ibid. 228 A friendly baker was waiting for him in a coburgh cart. 1925 Conrad Suspense i. ii. 25 The half-length portrait of a rubicund Latham in a white coburg, which, but for the manly and sensitive mouth, might have been the portrait of his own coachman. |
3. In full Coburg loaf, a kind of loaf.
| 1843 Rossetti Let. 25 June (1965) I. 12, I dawdled about till teatime. When I repaid myself by walking into the Coburg with awful perseverance. 1906 Westm. Gaz. 11 Sept. 10/2 Every description of loaf, from..a ‘crumby’ to a Coburg. 1935 E. Weekley Something about Words 106 Coburg loaf,,..which was named soon after the marriage of Queen Victoria to Prince Albert of Coburg-Gotha. 1955 Times 24 Mar. 4/3 An ‘oven bottom’ Coburg loaf—a loaf baked..on the floor of the oven or on the hearth rather than in a pan or tin. |