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Cologne. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. Cologne Also 4– coloyne, 4–6 coleyn, (5 collongne), 5–6 coleyne, 6 colleyne, -ayne, 6–7 collen, cullin, -en, 7–8 colen, collin, 8 cologn, (9 coulogne). [In F. Cologne, Ger. Köln, MG. Cölen, Du. Keulen:—L. Colonia Agrippina, the ancient Roman name.] Name of a German city on the Rhine, famous in the Middle Ages on account of the shrine of the Wise Men of the East, commonly called the Three Kings of Cologne: used attrib. to designate things obtained from the city or district, esp. in early names of weapons, as Cologne brand, sword: also thread, etc.

1 c. 1310.  Flemish Insurr., in Pol. Songs (Camden Soc.), 191. Into Coloyne.

2 c. 1400.  Three Kings Cologne (E.E.T.S.), 2. Þree holy and worshipfull kyngis of Coleyn.

3 1436.  Libel, in Wright, Pol. Songs, II. 171. Coleyne threde, fustiane, and canvase.

4 1483.  Act 1 Rich. III., c. 10 § 1. Calle sylk or Coleyn silk throwen or wrought.

5 1548.  Hall, Chron. (1809), 555. Long speres called Colleyne Clowystes.

6 c. 1550.  Otterburn, 200, in Child, Eng. & Sc. Ballads, VI. (1889), 298/1. They swapped together … Wyth swordes of fyne collayne.

7 c. 1592.  Faustus, in Thoms, Prose Rom. (1858), III. 265. Of divers sorts, French wine, Cullen wine, Crabashir wine.

8 a. 1650.  Arth. & King of Cornwall, 167, in Furniv., Percy Folio, I. 68. Collen brand Ile haue in my hand, and a Millaine knife fast by me knee.

9 1673.  Ray, Journ. Low C., 73. The three kings of Collen.

10 1805.  Scott, Last Minstrel, VI. vii. Dickon wore a Cologne blade.

11   b.  Cologne earth (umber, brown), a brown pigment obtained or prepared from lignite, originally from a bed near Cologne; Cologne yellow, a pigment consisting of a mixture of chromate and sulphate of lead with sulphate of lime.

12 1658.  W. Sanderson, Graphice, 53. Terra lemnia, or Cullins earth. Ibid., 55 Colens-earth. Ibid., 57. Terra-Colen is easie to work.

13 1703.  Art’s Improv., I. 39. Grind Collins-Earth very fine.

14 1809.  Sowerby, Elucidation of Colours, 40. Terra Siennæ, umber and Coulognes earth are cheaper.

15 1835.  G. Field, Chromatogr., 160. Cologn-Earth, incorrectly called Cullen’s earth.

16 1885.  Encycl. Brit., XIX. 88. Real Vandyke Brown … allied to which are Cologne and Cassel Earth.

17   c.  Cologne water = EAU DE COLOGNE, a perfumed spirit, manufactured at Cologne since 1709; in U.S. often called simply Cologne.

18 1841–4.  Emerson, Ess., Ser. II. iv. 120. Steeped in Cologne-water, and perfumed.

19 1863.  B. Taylor, H. Thurston, I. 265. Teacups, bowls, and even a cologne bottle.

20 1875.  Howells, Foregone Concl., ix. 150. She brought her water and cologne.

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