| 单词 | maggot ornament |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmaggot ornament 4. Archaeology. In full maggot ornament, maggot pattern. A pattern found on ceramics, created by the impression of a short length of twisted cord. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > [noun] device1399 vicea1400 work?a1475 pattern1581 sleight1590 figure1609 design1670 wile1849 patterning1860 key band1881 maggot1925 1925 V. G. Childe Dawn European Civilization xix. 289 The English bowls had carefully moulded rims and were decorated with the ‘maggot-pattern’ made by the imprint of a twisted string. 1939 Oxoniensia 4 115 Cord-impressions (‘maggot’ ornament) are found on the early Norman ‘candlestick’ from the Pithay, in the British Museum. 1940 V. G. Childe Prehist. Communities Brit. Isles (1949) v. 82 Crescentic or horseshoe-shaped imprints of a loop of simple or whipped cord were very popular and are suggestively termed maggots by archaeologists. 1967 Antiquaries Jrnl. 47 200 On the moulding over them is a single whipped-cord ‘maggot’ with a larger similar impression in the concave level above. < as lemmas |
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