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单词 fiddle-back wood
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fiddle-back wood
fiddle-back n. (a) a back (of a chair) shaped like a fiddle, also attributive in fiddle-back wood, a name given to various ornamental woods used for the covers of books; (b) = fiddler beetle n. at fiddler n. Compounds 2; (c) a chasuble with the front section shaped like a fiddle; (d) a grain found in wood used for violin-making.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [noun] > grain
long grain1542
grain1565
felt-grain1703
silver grain1801
figure1875
fiddle-back1890
society > faith > artefacts > vestments > outer garments > [noun] > chasuble > with front like fiddle
fiddle-back1890
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Lamellicornia Scarabaeoidea > family Scarabaeidae > eupoecila australasiae (fiddler beetle)
fiddle-back1890
fiddler beetle1917
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > parts of chairs > back > type of
splat1833
yoke back1835
fiddle-back1890
shield1897
comb-back1901
spoon-back1909
1890 Longman's Mag. Jan. 312 A tall, old Chippendale arm~chair, with a quaintly-carved ‘fiddle’-back.
1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 144/1 Fiddle-back, name given in Australia to the beetle, Schizorrhina australasiæ.
1899 P. Dearmer Parson's Handbk. iii. 91 There is no need in an English vestment for the pieces of ribbon without which it seems impossible to keep a ‘fiddle~back’ in position.
1908 P. Macquoid Hist. Eng. Furnit. IV. ii. 62 Harewood or hairwood is the same cutting of sycamore as that used in the manufacture of violins, and consequently termed fiddleback.
1938 H. E. Desch Timber iv. 42 Wavy grain..gives rise to a series of..variations in the reflection of light from the surface of the fibres: this is called fiddle-back figure.
1948 T. Corkhill Gloss. Wood 185 Fiddleback... Fine wavy grain common to sycamore and maple and used for the backs of violins.
1948 T. Corkhill Gloss. Wood 327 Highly figured wood is called Bird's Eye, Blister, Curly, and Fiddleback Maple.
1956 F. W. Jane Struct. Wood x. 227 Because it has become almost a convention to use wood so figured for the backs of violins, it is commonly known as fiddle-back figure.
1960 P. F. Anson Fashions Church Furnishings xxx. 319 Skirts ending at the knees went with fiddle-back chasubles of about the same length in the more extreme Anglo-Catholic churches.
1960 P. F. Anson Fashions Church Furnishings xxx. 363 Fiddle-back vestments of Baroque or Rococo style were taboo.
1969 E. H. Pinto Treen 439 Fiddle~back..occurs in some logs of sycamore, maple, mahogany, satinwood, etc.
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