| 词汇 | joseph coat |
| 词源 | Joseph coat. “Now Joseph was handsome and good looking. And after a time his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph, and said, ‘Lie with me.’ ” Joseph refused but Potiphar’s wife per- sisted. “. . . One day, when he went into the house to do his work and none of the men of the house was there in the house, she caught him by his garment, saying ‘Lie with me.’ ” Again Jo- seph abstained, this time fleeing from her and leaving his upper coat limp in her hand. Mrs. Potiphar proceeded to frame Jo- seph for attempted rape and her husband, captain of the pha- raoh’s guard, had him flung into prison, though all went well with our hero “because the Lord was with him.” It is from this story, recorded in Genesis 37 and 39, and the “coat of many col- ors” that Joseph’s father made him, that the name of the wom- an’s long riding coat, the joseph, derives. The name was probably applied by the 18th-century tailor who designed the short rid- ing coat, later given to the women’s long coat and a cloaklike one worn by men. |
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