| 释义 |
sponged, ppl. a.|spʌndʒd|
Also 5 spounged, 7 spunged.
[f. sponge n.1 or v.]
†1. Of a spongy texture; porous. Obs.—1
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xiv. xxxii. (Bodl. MS.), Þouȝ cragges be neuer so hard and rouȝe and scharpe wiþ⁓oute, ȝitte wiþin þei beþ somdele sponged [1495 spounged] and holowȝe.
2. Saturated with moisture like a sponge.
1628Feltham Resolves ii. xii. 31 Who can but thinke what a nastie Beast he is in his drunkennesse,..how like a nated Sop spunged, euen to the cracking of a skinne?
3. a. Wiped or cleansed with a sponge.
1871Browning Pr. Hohenst. Poet. Wks. 1897 II. 296/1 The old plan saved, instead of a sponged slate And fresh⁓drawn figure?
b. Of colour, paint, design, etc.: applied with a sponge. Hence sponged ware, pottery decorated by being dabbed with a sponge impregnated with colour. Cf. spatterware s.v. spatter v. 7.
1925Heal & Son catal.: Table Wares (1972), A sponged design in clear blue under-glaze on white ground. 1957Mankowitz & Haggar Conc. Encycl. Eng. Pott. & Porc. 101/1 Mocha was made here [at Greens] as well as sponged and lined wares. 1971L. A. Boger Dict. World Pott. & Porcelain 323/1 Sponged Ware. In American ceramics; decorating the surface of pottery by dabbing with a sponge or something of the sort. |