| 单词 | elephantpaper |
| 释义 | > as lemmaselephant-paper elephant-paper n. (see 9). elephant-paper a. (more fully elephant-paper). A size of drawing and cartridge paper measuring 28 × 23 inches. double elephant: a similar paper measuring 40 × 26½ inches. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > equipment for painting or drawing > [noun] > surface for painting or drawing > paper > specific size elephant1702 Atlas1712 1702 London Gaz. No. 3814/4 On two large sheets of Elephant Paper. 1716 London Gaz. No. 5493/4 The fine Imperial will not be sold under 7l...and the Elephant 3l. ?1790 J. Imison School of Arts (ed. 2) 238 A sheet of the largest elephant paper. a1807 J. Opie Lect. on Painting (1809) 146 Writing..upon..double elephant..paper. 1870 W. S. Jevons Elem. Lessons Logic iv. 35 Elephant in a stationer's..shop means a large kind of paper. 1880 Daily Tel. 3 Dec. ‘Elephant folio’..that is to say, of the fullest portfolio size. < as lemmas |
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