单词 | late-georgian |
释义 | > as lemmaslate-Georgian C3. Combining with adjectives to form adjectives, as late-Victorian, late-Georgian, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > age or period > [adjective] > final phase of a period late1837 the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [adjective] > late or posterior to late1837 1837 Lit. Gaz. 18 Mar. 180/2 We do not..agree with him, that the late Tudor, or Elizabethan style, consisted of the ‘perverted use of forms received from Greece and Rome’. 1842 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 5 27/2 The superimposed orders of the late Elizabethan, or early Italian school. 1856 J. P. Lesley Man. Coal & its Topogr. iii. 157 Acquainted with the look of the exit gorges of the Alleghany Mountain in the New World, cut down through nearly horizontal late Silurian and Devonian rocks. 1905 R. Munro Archæol. & False Antiq. i. 13 We have positive evidence of the existence of objects of the ‘Late Celtic’ civilisation in the lake village of Glastonbury. 1913 W. J. Locke Stella Maris iii. 26 Risca's room was transformed from late-Victorian solidity into early-Georgian elegance. 1972 E. Berckman Fourth Man on Rope i. 19 The table was undoubtedly late Georgian. 2012 Church Times 1 June 32/3 A fine late-medieval Brussels wood carving. < as lemmas |
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