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单词 chippendale
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Chippendaleadj.n.

Brit. /ˈtʃɪp(ə)ndeɪl/, U.S. /ˈtʃɪpənˌdeɪl/
Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Thomas Chippendale.
Etymology: < the name of Thomas Chippendale (1718–79), a celebrated English cabinetmaker and furniture designer, who published his influential book of designs The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director in 1754.In sense A. 2 apparently originally with allusion to the frequent use of similar armorial devices in Chippendale's furniture designs.
A. adj.
1. Designating an elegant style of ornamental furniture popularized in the pattern books of the English cabinetmaker Thomas Chippendale (1718–79); designed by or in the style of Thomas Chippendale.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > [adjective] > types of furniture generally
standing1444
plush1615
Queen Elizabeth1673
occasional1749
Adametic1774
French-polished1836
upholstered1837
Adamish1838
Chippendale1855
Queen Anne1863
knock-down1875
Wellington chest1880
Adamesque1881
Sheraton1883
Hepplewhite1897
quaint1897
bombé1904
lowboy1915
Jacobean1918
overstuffed1922
spool1928
Williamsburg1931
thermed1952
stackable1958
Scandinavian1959
wall-to-wall1959
Populuxe1986
1855 Art-Jrnl. Feb. 60/1 The decorative furniture, wainscot fittings, &c., of Chippendale, a well-known old English upholsterer and wood-carver, are in similar taste, and amongst workmen this variety of ornament is, indeed, often called the Chippendale style.
1882 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal I. i. 14 Spindle-legged Chippendale tables.
1937 J. P. Marquand Late George Apley (1940) xxx. 345 The family portraits are all around me... There are the Chippendale chairs and the tall clock and the gate-legged table. All these objects are very consoling.
2001 I. McEwan Atonement 46 At the foot of the four-poster, the seat of a Chippendale sofa had been so carefully straightened that sitting down would have seemed a desecration.
2. Designating a style of bookplate popular in the eighteenth cent., comprising an asymmetric shield within a cartouche of shellwork surrounded by leaves and flowers; of or relating to this style.
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1880 J. L. Warren Guide Study Book-plates iv. 28 The Chippendale style, which is the leading artistic fashion on English ex-libris after 1750.
1903 Bk.-auction Rec. 1 368 Each volume had Chippendale ex-libris.
1913 Daily Tel. 9 May 7/4 Most of the books..have Pennant's fine Chippendale armorial book plate.
2012 Boston Globe 20 May g6 Topping the plates being sold are two signed Chippendale armorial plates engraved by Paul Revere.
B. n.
A piece of Chippendale furniture; Chippendale furniture collectively.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > [noun] > types of furniture generally > piece of
encoignure1848
Chippendale1875
unit1899
Victorian1905
island1932
sectional1961
1875 M. Oliphant in Graphic Christmas No. 4/2 The chair upon which Mrs. Tremenheere sat was an elegant Chippendale.
1897 Aberdeen Jrnl. & Daily Advertiser 25 June 1/2 (advt.) Notice... Antique furnisher..has Returned from the South with a Large Collection of Chippendale.
1961 M. Beadle These Ruins are Inhabited (1963) i. 12 Your son will be careful with this chest, won't he? It's a Chippendale I'm rather fond of.
2014 Irish Independent (Nexis) 20 June 7 The average punter is unlikely to buy a genuine Chippendale for a fiver. That's because the auctioneers know their business.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021).
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