单词 | end-august |
释义 | > as lemmasend-August c. in attributive uses of phrases, as end-account, end-August, end-year (also followed by a specified year-date); end-of-December, end-of-season, end-of-term (also end-of-termy adj.), end-of-the-century, end-of-the-year. end-of-day adj. (also end-of-the-day) designating glassware made by combining different-coloured glass (allegedly oddments left over at the end of the day); cf. whimsy n. 7b. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > glass and glass-like materials > [adjective] > types of glass-work or glassware Pomona1886 Nailsea1910 Steuben1920 Orrefors1928 end-of-day1937 1891 Literary World 20 Nov. 422/3 Our end-of-the-century civilisation. 1902 Westm. Gaz. 12 June 7/2 The end-of-December account. 1903 Westm. Gaz. 21 Aug. 9/1 The final details of the end-August settlement. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 22 Sept. 9/1 Business in Kaffirs for the End-September settlement. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 9 Dec. 10/1 The end-of-the-year requirements are likely to be satisfied. 1911 H. S. Walpole Mr. Perrin & Mr. Traill iii. 42 The end-of-termy feelings. 1923 Manch. Guardian Weekly 10 Aug. 106/1 Smith Minor has been cruelly flogged by an avaricious head master who had discovered that his end-of-term rose-bowl was only electro plate instead of the solid silver which he had stipulated in his letter to the lad's parents. 1928 Daily Chron. 9 Aug. 8/6 The falling off in the average shown in latest developments, accentuated by end-account sales. 1937 Antiques Feb. 80/1 For years past, many collectors have found much to admire in what they called End of the Day glass. 1938 New Statesman 8 Jan. 39/1 The end-year issue of The Bookseller. 1947 W. Lewis Let. 21 Dec. (1963) 423 I was sorry to hear of your end-of-the-year feeling of nervous exhaustion. 1948 Glass Club Bull. Mar. 5/1 ‘End of the day’ is a fanciful term given in support of the story that at the end of the working day the odds and ends..were..remelted..and..appeared as beautiful pieces of purple and white glass. 1954 Economist 11 Sept. 1/2 The show [sc. Farnborough]..is both a shop-window and an end-of-term report. 1955 Times 6 July 16/1 The effects of end-account selling. 1959 Times 12 June 15/1 An end-of-season concert. 1960 Times 13 Jan. 17/2 There has recently been some movement of funds from London—quite apart from the Swiss end-year transactions. 1966 Rep. Comm. Inq. (Univ. of Oxf.) I. 182 At end-1965 prices. 1966 Listener 23 June 914/3 But it was the end-of-term exam that really made him anxious. 1969 Canad. Antiques Collector June 24/1 ‘End of day’ novelties, blown for fun from remaining glass, are..the most interesting from a collector's point of view. 1981 P. Phillips Encycl. Glass 163/3 These multi-coloured bottles were often made from the glass left in various pots at the close of work—hence the common name ‘end-of-day’ glass in England (also ‘splashed glass’ in America). < as lemmas |
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