| 单词 | foliate head |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfoliate head foliate head n. a representation of a man's face composed of, surrounded by, or sprouting foliage or branches, esp. used as an architectural ornament; = green man n. 1c. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > other ornaments pommela1300 crest1430 finial1448 balloon1592 brattishingc1593 knob1610 cartouche1611 ogive1611 fret1626 galace1663 acroterion1664 paternoster1728 semi-urn1742 patera1776 purfling1780 sailing course1807 vesica piscis (also piscium)1809 antefix1819 vesica1820 garland1823 stop1825 Aaron's rod1830 headwork1831 Vitruvian scroll1837 hip knob1838 stelea1840 ball-flower1840 notch-head1843 brandishing1846 buckle1848 cat's-head1848 bucrane1854 cresting1869 semi-ball1875 canephorus1880 crest-board1881 wave pattern1905 husk1934 foliate head1939 green man1939 1939 Lady Raglan in Folklore 50 47 Mr. C. J. P. Cave, who has photographed hundreds of roof bosses in cathedrals and churches says that in the majority the only alternative to these leafy faces or foliate heads, as he calls them, is oak leaves. 1980 S. Heaney Preoccupations (1984) 186 The old religion kept budding out on the roofs of cathedrals all over Europe, in the shape of those roof-bosses which art historians call ‘green men’ or ‘foliate heads’, human faces growing out of and into leaves and acorns and branches. 1999 R. Hutton Triumph of Moon (2001) 128 The medieval foliate heads carved in churches and cathedrals are now known to have had nothing to do with the foliage-covered figure which danced in nineteenth-century May Day processions. 2006 G. R. Varner Mythic Forest, Green Man & Spirit of Nature xiv. 155 The foliate head at Saint Abre is the earliest known example of the ‘disgorger of vegetation’ in Europe. < as lemmas |
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