span-new
English Edit
Etymology Edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Compare spick-and-span.
Adjective Edit
span-new (comparative more span-new, superlative most span-new)
- (archaic) brand new
- Synonym: (archaic) fire-new
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, edited by James Nichols, The Church History of Britain, […], new edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [James Nichols] for Thomas Tegg and Son, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
- A span-new archbishop's chair.
- (Can we date this quote?), (Please provide the book title or journal name):
- he was very nicely dressed, and wore a span-new velvet vest, a real English broadcloth coat, gold watch with gold seals […]
Descendants Edit
- → Welsh: newydd sbon (partial calque)
References Edit
- “span-new”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.