单词 | drop-leaved |
释义 | > as lemmasdrop-leaved 3. Of a door, table, etc.: having hinged or insertable leaves. Chiefly as the second element of compounds: having a specified type or number of leaves, as double-leaved, drop-leaved, etc.See also two-leaved adj. a. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of door > [adjective] leaved1560 valved1676 bivalve1677 hinge-bound1842 1560 Will of John Ellyot in F. G. Emmison Essex Wills (1982) (modernized text) I. 31 To my son a featherbed,..2 candlesticks. and a leaved table with a form. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxxvii. iii. 946 Both the lanterne, yea and the leaved dores thereof, were foully disfigured. 1641 J. Johnson Acad. Love 40 Cupid brought me to a double leaved doore. 1691 At Exeter Change, Sale Orig. Paintings 3 A 4 leaved Indian Screen very fine. 1707 tr. Trav. Denmark & Some Parts Germany 1702 v. 410 Upon one of the leaved doors is represented His going up to Mount Calvary. 1783 R. Knipe Course Lect. 286 The body is the soul's castle. The mouth is the entrance, the lips are a double-leaved door. 1856 C. Mathews Chanticleer viii. 95 The ancient four-legged and wide-leaved table. 1883 Art Interchange 10 May 122/2 A single-leaved screen of open-work mahogany. 1900 R. Vaughn Then & Now 189 There was only one entrance to the stockade—a large double-leaved gate. 1914 Country Life in Amer. Oct. 72/2 On one side of the high four-poster..is a drop-leaved stand, conveniently holding candlestick, snuffers, and tray. 1977 C. van Ravenswaay Arts & Archit. German Settlements Missouri ii. viii. 193 An unusual triple-leaved door was found on the Kramer-Witte house. 2001 C. Knight Essent. Frank Lloyd Wright 144 The leaved table that serves as a desk. < as lemmas |
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