单词 | oviculated |
释义 | oviculatedadj. Chiefly Architecture. rare. Decorated with egg-shaped ornaments; having egg-shaped markings. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [adjective] > other ornaments raffled1681 frosted1728 oviculated1789 voluted1810 antefixal1844 arborescent1849 dog-toothed1849 finialled1850 floreted1856 historied1936 1789 P. Smyth tr. H. Aldrich Elements Civil Archit. 12 It is termed oviculated, because artists imagine the sculpture to imitate eggs and anchors. 1889 N.E.D. at Ceratite A fossil Cephalopod, with a discoidal shell having lobed sutures, with the lobes oviculated. 1911 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. 1540/1 Oviculated, adorned with ovicula. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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