| 单词 | forty-eight |
| 释义 | > as lemmasforty-eight forty-eight n. (a) a flowerpot of the third smallest size, of which there are 48 in a ‘cast’; (b) plural a sheet of a book folded into forty-eight leaves; (c) the forty-eight preludes and fugues of J. S. Bach. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > flower-pot or tub garden pot1592 flowerpot1598 pot1615 forty-eight1808 jardinière1841 thumb-pot1851 flower-box1876 window box1895 planter1948 society > communication > book > kind of book > size of book > [noun] > forty-eightmo forty-eight1808 forty-eightmo1888 society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > [noun] > specific group of pieces forty-eight1808 Mozartiana1935 1808 C. Stower Printer's Gram. 192 A Half Sheet of Forty-eights, with Two Signatures. 1839 T. C. Hansard Treat. Printing & Type-founding 168 Forty-eights to be paid 2s. per sheet extra. 1850 G. Glenny Hand-bk. Flower Garden 227 They must be potted off into moderately small pots, say forty-eights. 1873 H. C. Banister Music (1889) iii. xxvi. 206 Bach's Fugue in C♯ Minor, No. 4 of the 48. 1902 Westm. Gaz. 29 Dec. 1/3 Those famous fugues and preludes known to all musicians as the ‘Forty-Eight’. 1965 G. Hughes Handbk. Great Composers vii. 45 At times the..counterpoint seems to spring from the interweaving of rhythmic figures rather than of melodic phrases—as in the prelude in F sharp major from the second book of the ‘forty-eight’. < as lemmas |
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