单词 | paysage |
释义 | paysagen. 1. A representation in painting of a rural scene or landscape. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > landscape-painting > a landscape or view > type of paysage1611 winter piece1612 rockscape1754 pastoral1798 skyscape1811 snow scene1836 icescape1839 cloudscape1868 townscape1880 winterscape1884 treescape1885 farmscape1886 cowscape1896 roadscape1899 cityscape1915 dunescape1928 slumscape1947 hellscape1959 jungle-scape1973 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Païsage, Paisage, Landskip, Countrey-worke; a representation of fields, or of the countrey, in painting, &c. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1661 (1955) III. 294 Some incomparable paisages don in distemper. 2011 J. Cartwright Other People's Money (2012) viii. 86 She sits there now, as if in retreat from the French tassels and gilt frames and Aubusson paysages and Sheraton card tables. 2. Chiefly literary and poetic. Countryside, esp. as a subject for contemplation or description; a particular landscape. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > [noun] chorography1617 pedography1625 topography1642 paysage1650 face1673 the lie of the land1697 carte du pays1744 terrain1766 network1839 landscape1886 land form1893 microtopography1941 1650 H. Vaughan Silex Scintillans 104 So have I known some beauteous Paisage rise In suddain flowres and arbours to my Eies. 1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad V. xviii. 140 (note) Between the Siege in the fourth Picture, and the Battel in the sixth, a piece of Paisage is introduced. 1807 R. Wilson Diary 9 Aug. in Life (1862) II. viii. 343 At Strehlinnen I am gratified by a noble view of the gulf, a handsome paysage, and the magnificent palace of the grand duke. 1883 H. James Portraits of Places xviii. 344 A paysage which is two-thirds ocean. 1944 S. Putnam tr. E. da Cunha Rebellion in Backlands Introd. p. ix The depth and warmth of human feeling that he puts into the description of a paysage, whether it be the stricken hinterland flora in the time of drought or a geological formation. 1996 M. Cheek Sleeping Beauties x. 73 Magical sunsets bleeding into the paysage. Maybe she really would get to see them. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1611 |
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