| 单词 | encaustic brick |
| 释义 | > as lemmasencaustic brick b. in wider sense, with reference to any process by which pigments are ‘burnt in’, e.g. enamelling, painting on pottery, etc. encaustic brick, encaustic tile: one decorated with patterns formed with different coloured clays, inlaid in the brick or tile, and burnt with it. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > plated or coated metal > [adjective] > coated with vitreous substance annealed1552 enamelled1621 encaustic1656 porcelain-enamelled1895 stove-enamelled1912 porcelainized1930 tin-enamelled1933 porcelanized1958 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Encaustick (encausticus), enameled, wrought with fire, varnished. 1781 W. Hayley Triumphs of Temper vi. 174 The..artist, whose nice toils aspire To fame eternal by encaustic fire. 1860 S. Smiles Self-help (new ed.) ii. 45 The manufacture of encaustic tiles. a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) I. 177 The splendid encaustic floor is still perfect. < as lemmas |
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