单词 | scagliola |
释义 | scagliolan.ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > sedimentary rock > [noun] > limestone limestone1523 scagliola1582 lime-rock1665 scaglia1774 1582 J. Hester tr. L. Fioravanti Compend. Rationall Secretes iii. xcvii. 121 This Allum Scaleola or Gesso is vsed much in Italie to make Lyme of. 1774 Strange in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) (1775) 65 34 This they call Scaglia, or Scagliola, from its being composed of thin slaty strata, which are of a yellowish colour. 2. a. Plaster-work of Italian origin, designed to imitate kinds of stone. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > plaster or stucco work > [noun] > type of scagliola1747 Lombard band1936 1747 [see sense 2b]. 1805 P. Beckford Familiar Lett. Italy I. xxx. 298 John Hugford, an Englishman, Friar of this Convent [of Vallombrosa, Tuscany], was the inventor of the Scagliola. 1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 369 The making and polishing the scagliola, now so much used for columns. 1886 F. Harrison Choice Bks. 170 Bepalaced for evermore in choice saloons resplendent with ormolu and scagliola. b. attributive. ΚΠ 1747 H. Walpole Let. to H. Mann 28 July The commission for the scagliuola tables. 1814 Sporting Mag. 44 270 The basement is painted in rich Scagliola marble. 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. xvi. 313 A scagliola pillar. 1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock 245 Supported on the sham scagliola Corinthian columns, with the gilt capitals, is a trellised balcony. Derivatives scagliˈolist n. a worker in scagliola. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > decorator > [noun] > maker of decorative plasterwork plasterman1503 Paris plasterer?1518 plasterer1615 stuccadore1766 stuccoist1825 scagliolist1827 plasterworker1909 1827 Westm. Rev. 7 289 There is scarcely..a scagliolist, who is not an Italian. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1582 |
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