| 单词 | imperial porphyry |
| 释义 | > as lemmasimperial porphyry a. A very hard, purplish-red rock quarried in the eastern desert of Egypt for ornamental use, esp. during the Roman period, consisting of a fine groundmass of hornblende, plagioclase, apatite, thulite, and withamite (the last two being bright red in colour), in which are embedded crystals of white or red feldspar (also imperial porphyry). Also in extended use: any attractive red or purple stone taking a high polish.Recorded earliest in porphyry stone n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > igneous rock > [noun] > ancient porphyry porphyry?a1439 porphyry stone?a1439 porphyrine1588 porphyrite1589 porfido1611 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > rock crystal > [noun] > porphyry porphyry?a1439 porphyry stone?a1439 porphyrine1588 porphyrite1589 porfido1611 α. β. c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 5275 (MED) Þe pilars ware of purfire, polischt & hewen.1560 Bible (Geneva) Esther i. 6 (margin) The beds were of gold and of siluer vpon a pauement of porphyre.1562 G. Legh Accedens of Armory (1597) A vj b The third is a piller of Porphier in a golden field.1589 T. Lodge Scillaes Metamorphosis (Hunterian Club) 41 Where purphure, Ebonie, white, and red, al colours stained bee.1590 R. Greene Mourning Garment 28 The Saphir [is] highlier esteemed for the hue, then the Porphuer for his hugenesse.1596 T. Danett tr. P. de Commynes Hist. vii. xv. 305 Beautified with many great peeces of Porphire and Sarpentine.1634 W. Tirwhyt tr. J. L. G. de Balzac Lett. 77 Precious as Marble and Purphire.1648 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 217 My great grinding-stonne of purfure with the muller to it, and the little grinding-stonne of purfere with the muller to it.1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. viii. 58 Let us consider the red and white colours in Porphyre.1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xxviii. 227 The most durable Marbre or Porphyr.a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) viii. l. 1247 (MED) The font was maad of porfirie stoon. 1541 T. Elyot Image of Gouernance xxii. f. 40v Pylers of porphery, whiche is a stone of purple colour. 1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) xii. lxxiv. 303 The Statures huge, of Porphyrie and costlier matters made. c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 174 Red plaster flores, which are made so hard, and kept so polite, that..one would take them for whole pieces of Porphyrie. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 437 The floore [of St Mark's] all inlayed with Achats,..Jaspers, Porphyrie and other rich marbles. 1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 82. ⁋9 I have two pieces of porphyry found among the ruins of Ephesus. 1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV lx. 33 Her pyramid of precious stones? Of porphyry, jasper, agate, and all hues Of gem and marble. 1861 C. W. King Antique Gems (1866) 64 Porphyry..is easily recognised by its deep red colour, thickly dotted with small white spots. 1871 D. G. Rossetti Burden of Nineveh xiii Made proud with pillars of basalt, With sardonyx and porphyry. 1921 Geogr. Jrnl. 58 272 To their activities we owe the discovery of the beautiful Imperial porphyry of Gebel Dukhan. 1961 T. K. Derry & T. I. Williams Short Hist. Technol. v. 165 Among imported marbles peculiar prestige attached to the imperial porphyry from Egypt, first quarried under the Emperor Claudius and retained as imperial property because its colour was the true imperial purple. 1974 D. Yarwood Archit. Europe ii. 40/1 Granite and alabaster were also imported with precious materials such as porphyry to give richness and lustre to interiors. < as lemmas |
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