oeil-de-boeufn.

Brit.

/ˌɔɪdəˈbəːf/, U.S.

/ˌɔɪdəˈbʊf/

Inflections: Plural oeils-de-boeuf, oeils-de-boeufs.

Forms: 1700s oeuil de boeuf, 1700s– oeil-de-boeuf, 1800s oeuil-de-beuf.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French œil-de-bœuf.

Etymology: < French œil-de-bœuf (1555 in Middle French in sense 1 (1530 as œul de beuf ), 1787 in sense 2; compare Old French oil de beuf , 1160–74 denoting an oval reliquary) < œil eye (see oeillade n.) + de de prep. + bœuf ox (compare bœuf n.). N.E.D. (1902) gives only the non-naturalized pronunciation (öidəböf) /œjdəbœf/. In plural form oeils-de-boeuf after the French plural form.

1. A small round or oval window. Cf. bull's-eye n. 6.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of window > [noun] > round windows

roundel1574

oeil-de-boeuf1728

marigold window1736

rose window1738

wheel-window1821

rose1823

rosette1836

rosace1837

bull's-eye1842

Catherine-wheel window1848

ox-eye1875

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Eye Bullocks Eye, or Oeuil de Bœuf, is a little Sky-Light in the Covering, or Roof.

1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xxv. 255 Take a peep at the ladies in the hall through an œil-de-bœuf.

1971 Country Life 14 Oct. 969/2 A cove, pierced by oeil-de-boeuf windows, supports the flat painted ceiling.

2000 Times (Nexis) 15 Jan. The four huge, heavily carved window frames: oeils-de-boeufs ripped from a 19th-century French chateau.

2. The name of an octagonal vestibule lighted by a small oval window in the palace at Versailles where, before the Revolution of 1789, members of the court, government, etc., waited on the French monarch; (hence, in extended use) such a vestibule or antechamber in another establishment. Also: the people so gathered for an audience, etc.; a royal household or court. Now chiefly historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room by situation > [noun] > entrance-hall or vestibule

fore-entry1535

hall1663

entrance hall1677

side entry1680

tambour1728

vestibule1730

entryway1746

entry hall1753

oeil-de-boeuf1785

voorhuis1822

voorkamer1827

atrium1864

hallway1877

wind-porch1899

mud room1950

1785 J. Adams Note 3 Jan. in L. H. Butterfield et al. Adams Family Corr. (1993) VI. 44 At the Oeuil de Boeuf [paid] 1 Louis to each of the Suisse's.

1785 J. Adams Let. 2 June in Wks. (1853) VIII. 256 When we arrived in the antechamber, the oeil de boeuf of St. James's, the master of ceremonies met me and attended me, while the Secretary of State went to take the commands of the King.

1826 W. Scott Woodstock I. xii. 300 This movement conveyed him to a sort of Œuil-de-beuf, an octagon vestibule, or small hall, from which various rooms opened.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. iii. i. 91 To govern France were such a problem; and now it has grown well-nigh too hard to govern even the Œil-de-Bœuf.

1862 F. C. L. Wraxall & R. Wehrhan tr. Mem. Queen Hortense II. iv. 57 The royalist gentry had preserved the manners and levity which had once distinguished them in the œils de bœuf and petites maisons of old France.

1875 J. A. Symonds Renaissance in Italy I. ii. 122 Circumstances made the life of courts the best obtainable; but there is no trace of French oeil-de-bœuf servility.

1960 H. Nicolson Eighteenth Cent. (1961) 292 When the last courtier, bowing profoundly, had backed out of the bedroom into the adjoining oeil-de-boeuf, then Louis XV would leap out of bed again..and..skip up the secret staircase and slip into his own comfortable bed.

1992 Independent (Nexis) 29 Aug. (Weekend Books section) 28 The Court had assembled, to wait events, in the huge antechamber known as the Oeil de Boeuf.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	oeil-de-boeuf
释义	oeil-de-boeufn. Brit. /ˌɔɪdəˈbəːf/, U.S. /ˌɔɪdəˈbʊf/ Inflections: Plural oeils-de-boeuf, oeils-de-boeufs. Forms: 1700s oeuil de boeuf, 1700s– oeil-de-boeuf, 1800s oeuil-de-beuf. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French œil-de-bœuf. Etymology: < French œil-de-bœuf (1555 in Middle French in sense 1 (1530 as œul de beuf ), 1787 in sense 2; compare Old French oil de beuf , 1160–74 denoting an oval reliquary) < œil eye (see oeillade n.) + de de prep. + bœuf ox (compare bœuf n.). N.E.D. (1902) gives only the non-naturalized pronunciation (öidəböf) /œjdəbœf/. In plural form oeils-de-boeuf after the French plural form. 1. A small round or oval window. Cf. bull's-eye n. 6. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of window > [noun] > round windows roundel1574 oeil-de-boeuf1728 marigold window1736 rose window1738 wheel-window1821 rose1823 rosette1836 rosace1837 bull's-eye1842 Catherine-wheel window1848 ox-eye1875 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Eye Bullocks Eye, or Oeuil de Bœuf, is a little Sky-Light in the Covering, or Roof. 1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xxv. 255 Take a peep at the ladies in the hall through an œil-de-bœuf. 1971 Country Life 14 Oct. 969/2 A cove, pierced by oeil-de-boeuf windows, supports the flat painted ceiling. 2000 Times (Nexis) 15 Jan. The four huge, heavily carved window frames: oeils-de-boeufs ripped from a 19th-century French chateau. 2. The name of an octagonal vestibule lighted by a small oval window in the palace at Versailles where, before the Revolution of 1789, members of the court, government, etc., waited on the French monarch; (hence, in extended use) such a vestibule or antechamber in another establishment. Also: the people so gathered for an audience, etc.; a royal household or court. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room by situation > [noun] > entrance-hall or vestibule fore-entry1535 hall1663 entrance hall1677 side entry1680 tambour1728 vestibule1730 entryway1746 entry hall1753 oeil-de-boeuf1785 voorhuis1822 voorkamer1827 atrium1864 hallway1877 wind-porch1899 mud room1950 1785 J. Adams Note 3 Jan. in L. H. Butterfield et al. Adams Family Corr. (1993) VI. 44 At the Oeuil de Boeuf [paid] 1 Louis to each of the Suisse's. 1785 J. Adams Let. 2 June in Wks. (1853) VIII. 256 When we arrived in the antechamber, the oeil de boeuf of St. James's, the master of ceremonies met me and attended me, while the Secretary of State went to take the commands of the King. 1826 W. Scott Woodstock I. xii. 300 This movement conveyed him to a sort of Œuil-de-beuf, an octagon vestibule, or small hall, from which various rooms opened. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. iii. i. 91 To govern France were such a problem; and now it has grown well-nigh too hard to govern even the Œil-de-Bœuf. 1862 F. C. L. Wraxall & R. Wehrhan tr. Mem. Queen Hortense II. iv. 57 The royalist gentry had preserved the manners and levity which had once distinguished them in the œils de bœuf and petites maisons of old France. 1875 J. A. Symonds Renaissance in Italy I. ii. 122 Circumstances made the life of courts the best obtainable; but there is no trace of French oeil-de-bœuf servility. 1960 H. Nicolson Eighteenth Cent. (1961) 292 When the last courtier, bowing profoundly, had backed out of the bedroom into the adjoining oeil-de-boeuf, then Louis XV would leap out of bed again..and..skip up the secret staircase and slip into his own comfortable bed. 1992 Independent (Nexis) 29 Aug. (Weekend Books section) 28 The Court had assembled, to wait events, in the huge antechamber known as the Oeil de Boeuf. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1728
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