单词 | rose-boss |
释义 | > as lemmasrose-boss (e) With the sense ‘designed or made in the form of a rose’, ‘decorated with a rose or rosette’, as rose-band, rose-boss, rose hatband, rose-knot, rose-lashing, rose-top, etc. ΚΠ 1447 in F. W. Weaver Somerset Medieval Wills (1901) 158 (MED) [One bowl of] parys [without a cover..and one covered bowl of silver called] rostope. 1510 in J. Raine Fabric Rolls York Minster (1859) 263 Also yt is ordeynd rose bandes and fillettes and other carrifying wark. 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words at Rosette Little Roses; also Rose purles or worke in bone-lace. 1612 S. Rowlands Knaue of Harts 13 Rose Hat-bands, with the shagged-ragged-Ruffe. 1708 London Gaz. No. 5464/3 A Rose Hat-band about his Hat. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Knot The principal of these are the diamond-knot, the rose-knot, the wall-knot. 1787 W. Hutchinson Hist. & Antiq. Durham II. 314 The roof is of wood, in the vault form, of excellent workmanship, jointed with rose knots. 1841 R. H. Dana Seaman's Man. 13 The foot-ropes..should be..seized to the boom by a rose-seizing through an eye~splice. 1842 G. W. Francis Dict. Arts Rose Ornament, a common ornament in cornices, around apertures, and in other parts of Gothic architecture. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Rose-Lashing, this lashing is middled, and passed opposite ways; when finished, the ends appear as if coiled round the crossings. 1873 H. B. Tristram Land of Moab xi. 199 On the flat wall itself runs a large pattern like a continued W, with a large rose boss between each angle. 1947 A. Ransome Great Northern? i. 20 A hand..took hold of the rose knot worked in the end of the bit of rope that dangled from the clapper of a small ship's bell. 1984 Gesta 23 142/1 All the bosses of the Lady Chapel vault are small and this may account for the inaccurate colouring of the Rose bosses. < as lemmas |
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