| 释义 |
wash-work
[f. wash n. or v.]
†1. to make wash-work with: app. ‘to make short work of’. Cf. the phrase under wash-way 1 b, of which this appears to be an altered form.
1637J. Williams Holy Table 159 And if this Leader should chance to be overcome,..we shall make wash-work with the rest of his followers.
2. Used for wash-drawing.
1893A. Beardsley Let. c 15 Feb. (1970) 44 Nobody gave me credit for caricature and wash-work, but I have blossomed out into both styles. 1900Pall Mall Gaz. 2 Nov. 1/3 Mr. Frank Craig..is scarcely behind Mr. Hatherell in his excellent wash-work. |