单词 | garden carpet |
释义 | garden carpetn. 1. More fully garden carpet moth. A geometrid moth often found in gardens and allotments, Xanthorhoe fluctuata, having greyish-white wings with a variable pattern of darker markings on the forewing, and caterpillars which feed on brassicas, nasturtiums, and related plants. Cf. carpet n. 4, carpet-moth n. at carpet n. Compounds 1e. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Geometridae > carpet > types of panther1775 garden carpet1809 chalk carpet1832 wall-carpet1832 ringed carpet1839 red carpet1890 1809 A. H. Haworth Lepidoptera Britannica ii. 333 The garden Carpet. 1847 L. Jenyns Observ. Nat. Hist. 387 (table) Garden Carpet-Moth (Cidaria fluctuata). 1908 R. South Moths Brit. Isles II. 195 (caption) Garden Carpet at rest. 1958 W. J. Stokoe Caterpillars Brit. Moths (new ed.) II. 97 For pupation, this species [sc. the Galium Carpet] pursues the same technique as the Garden Carpet Moth. 2013 D. Newland et al. Britain's Day-flying Moths 79 The Garden Carpet is often confused with Galium Carpet. 2. A Persian carpet with a formal design of plants, animals, streams, etc. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > floor-covering > [noun] > carpet > garden pattern garden carpet1908 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > floor-covering > [noun] > carpet > Oriental > Persian or Iranian Persian carpet1583 Persian1653 Persian rug1844 Tabriz1859 Kirman1876 Mecca1892 Karadagh1900 Khorassan1900 Kirmanshah1900 Shiraz1900 Hamadan1901 Shah Abbas1901 garden carpet1908 mahal1911 vase carpet1915 Nain1953 1908 Burlington Mag. Oct. 27/2 North Persia and the silk carpets come first... He is able..to give a mass of new examples of garden carpets. 1928 Sunday Express 8 July 10/4 A fine ‘firdausi’, or garden carpet. 1963 Times 8 June 1/7 There is reason to believe that the first important carpet was known as the Garden Carpet. When the sons of the Prophet took Ctesiphon in A.D. 637 they discovered a vast woven fabric of over one thousand square yards in area,..in which the motive was a garden in the full beauty of spring... The garden carpet is a symbol—the emblems of life and death passing to eternity in an endless chain. 2003 New Yorker 1 Dec. 25/1 Also on sale is a twenty-three-by-eleven-foot Persian ‘garden carpet’, a depiction of a formal Safavid garden. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1809 |
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