| 单词 | horseshoe arch |
| 释义 | > as lemmashorseshoe arch C2. attributive passing into adj. ‘Of the form of a horseshoe, or arc larger than a semicircle’, as horseshoe arch, horseshoe bend, horseshoe brooch, horseshoe curve, horseshoe door, horseshoe moustache, horseshoe table. ΚΠ 1770 Duchess of Northumberland Diary 10 June (1926) 139 In the midst of the Room were two Horse Shoe Tables the ends of which pretty near touching form'd a Kind of Oval. 1796 W. Combe Hist. Thames II. 71. The horse-shoe bend that begins at Mortlake. 1815 T. Rickman in J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 131 A horse-shoe arch has its centre above the spring. 1857 C. M. Yonge Let. 1 Oct. in C. R. Coleridge C. M. Yonge (1903) viii. 212 A great horse-shoe table, holding 116 people. 1873 W. A. Hayne in H. B. Tristram Land of Moab 375 Arches distinctly horse-shoe. 1875 ‘M. Twain’ in Atlantic Monthly Aug. 192/2 The water cuts the alluvial banks of the ‘lower’ river into deep horseshoe curves. 1884 Graphic 22 Nov. 538/1 The delegates took their places to the right and left of him at a horseshoe table. 1893 T. B. Foreman Trip to Spain 64 Through the usual horse-shoe door, we enter an open court. 1926 F. M. Ford Man could stand Up i. i. 17 The gentlemen with sergeant-majors' horse-shoe moustaches. 1950 G. Brenan Face of Spain ii. 42 The double horseshoe arches, striped buff-white and brick-rose, arrest one by their strangeness and novelty. < as lemmas |
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