| 单词 | cupid's bow |
| 释义 | > as lemmasCupid's bow b. Cupid's bow, designation of a shape or outline resembling the double-curved bow of Cupid. Cupid's dart, (a) the popular name for a variety of Catananche; cupidone n.; (b) (also Cupid's arrows) (see quots. 1884, 1910). ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > series of curves > [noun] > double curve S1426 ess1540 swan-neck1686 Cupid's bow1875 sigma1877 the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > silicates > tectosilicate > [noun] > quartz > crystalline quartzes > others amethysta1300 citrine1571 morion1748 rose quartz1793 smoky quartz1837 citron1838 tea-stone1848 smoke quartz1872 Cupid's dart1910 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > composite flowers > other composite flowers ox-eyea1400 starwort?a1450 Jupiter's beard1567 goldenrod1568 achillea1597 blue camomile1597 blue daisy1597 cineraria1597 hog's bean1597 jackanapes on horseback1597 sea-starwort1597 sultan flower1629 mouse-ear1696 aster1706 Canada goldenrod1731 ageratum1737 rudbeckia1751 coreopsis1753 melampodium1754 Aaron's rod1760 zinnia1761 Michaelmas daisy1767 China aster1785 New England aster1785 catananche1798 sea-aster1812 cosmea1813 cosmos1813 gazania1813 erigeron1815 gousblom1822 Christmas daisy1829 rhodanthe1834 tassel-flower1836 ligularia1839 old maid1839 mountain daisy1848 purple coneflower1848 acroclinium1852 sea ox-eye1856 thimble-weed1860 helipterum1862 treasure-flower1866 Swan River daisy1873 blanket flower1879 cone-flower1879 blue marguerite1882 Solidago1883 yellow-top1887 Gaillardia1888 gerbera1889 youth and old age1889 pussytoes1892 niggerhead1893 Transvaal daisy1899 Barberton daisy1906 onion grass1909 ursinia1928 Cupid's dart1930 Livingstone daisy1932 1858 E. Bulwer-Lytton What will he do with It? (Tauchnitz ed.) III. vi. vi. 165 Evil passions had destroyed the outline of the once beautiful lips, arched as a Cupid's bow.] 1875 T. Seaton Man. Fret Cutting 139 It gives the lip that shape called Cupid's Bow. 1884 E. W. Streeter Precious Stones (ed. 4) 292/3 The brilliant hair-brown needles of Rutile, penetrating the crystal in all directions, impart a curious appearance to the stone, and such specimens are often cut for brooches, under the name of Flèches d'Amour, or ‘Cupid's arrows’, or ‘Venus's Hair-Stone’. 1904 B. von Hutten Pam iv. viii He's a sweetly pretty youth..with a cupid's-bow mouth. 1910 Encycl. Brit. XII. 272/1 This form of the mineral [göthite] has long been known as onegite, and the crystals enclosing it are cut for ornamental purposes under the name of ‘Cupid's darts’ (flèches d'amour). 1910–11 H. Cescinsky Eng. Furnit. 18th Cent. II. 246 Figs. 249 and 250 are instructive in exhibiting the evolution of the true ‘Cupid's bow’ top rail. 1929 J. L. Hodson Grey Dawn i. i Big brown eyes, cupid's bow mouth and broad forehead. 1930 L. H. Bailey & E. Z. Bailey Hortus 127/1 Catananche. Cupids-Dart... Herbaceous annuals and perennials with narrow leaves borne near base of stem and longstalked blue or yellow heads. 1935 E. J. Salisbury Living Garden viii. 127 The dry grassy banks of southern Europe have given us Cupid's Dart (Catananche coerulea)..brought to this country at the end of the sixteenth century. 1938 ‘J. Bell’ Port of London Murders ix. 167 She touched up her mouth, curving the cupid's bow well above the natural contour of her upper lip. 1962 R. Webster Gems I. x. 163 When the enclosed crystals are long hair-like needles of red or golden-coloured rutile the material is called rutilated quartz... Other more popular names such as ‘Venus hair stone’, ‘Cupid's darts’ and ‘Flêches d'amour’ are applied to the material. 1969 Gloss. Terms Dentistry (B.S.I.) 44 ‘Cupid's bow’ operation, a procedure to re-adjust the vermilion border..of the upper lip into the classical Cupid's bow conformation. < as lemmas |
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