单词 | folding fan |
释义 | > as lemmasfolding fan folding fan n. a hand-held fan consisting of a semicircular decorated pleated mount or leaf, usually of paper, silk, or vellum, supported on a set of slender sticks held together at their base by a rivet which enables opening and closing; cf. rigid fan n. at rigid adj. and n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1834 J. R. Planché Hist. Brit. Costume 262 The fan of ostrich or other feathers..lately brought again into fashion, though more as an ornament for a room than as a substitute for the folding fan of ivory. 1865 London Jrnl. 9 Sept. 172/3 The green shading fan..held its pride of place until the Revolution, when the folding fan came into vogue. 1901 Bull. Free Museum Sci. & Art (Univ. of Pennsylvania) Jan. 178 Folding fan, with Venice lace leaf and carved ivory sticks... Folding fan, with swanskin leaf with print of scenery and love verses; reverse, cypher with crown. 1960 H. Hayward Connoisseur's Handbk. Antique Collecting 94/1 Until the mid-1670's the mounts of folding fans were cut with open-work lace-like patterns copying the intricate designs of French and Flemish lace. 2014 M. E. Snodgrass World Clothing & Fashion (2015) 238/2 Gradually in the 1630s, the feminine feather fan shrank to one lone feather or a folding fan with ivory or tortoiseshell ribs. < as lemmas |
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