英语词汇hessian的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Hessian. As an American epithet Hessian can be traced back to the Revolutionary War, when the British employed 30,000 Hessian mercenaries and their name, justly or not, came to mean any boorish, uncouth person of low moral character. The Hessians came from the former Grand Duchy of Hesse in Ger- many. Their name is also found in the high-tasseled Hessian boots fashionable in early 19th-century England; Hessian cloth, a strong, coarse jute or hemp cloth originally made in Hesse; Hessian, for any mercenary; and the Hessian fly so destructive to wheat, which was erroneously believed to have been brought to America by the Hessian soldiers.

词汇	hessian
词源	Hessian. As an American epithet Hessian can be traced back to the Revolutionary War, when the British employed 30,000 Hessian mercenaries and their name, justly or not, came to mean any boorish, uncouth person of low moral character. The Hessians came from the former Grand Duchy of Hesse in Ger- many. Their name is also found in the high-tasseled Hessian boots fashionable in early 19th-century England; Hessian cloth, a strong, coarse jute or hemp cloth originally made in Hesse; Hessian, for any mercenary; and the Hessian fly so destructive to wheat, which was erroneously believed to have been brought to America by the Hessian soldiers.
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