Sharawaggin.

/ˌʃarəˈwadʒi/

Forms: Also with small initial. Also sharawadgi.

Etymology: Of unknown origin; Chinese scholars agree that it cannot belong to that language. Temple speaks as if he had himself heard it from travellers. For a discussion of etymological hypotheses see 1949 Archit. Rev. CVI. 391/2.

Originally (see quot. 1690). Revived in the twentieth century with particular application to landscape gardening and architecture. Also attributive.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > beauty of shape or form > [noun] > beautiful lack of symmetry

Sharawaggi1690

1690 W. Temple Ess. Gardens of Epicurus 58 in Miscellanea: 2nd Pt. The Chineses..have a particular Word to express it [sc. the beauty of studied irregularity]; and where they find it hit their Eye at first sight, they say the Sharawadgi is fine or is admirable.

?1725 A. Pope Corr. 12 Aug. (1956) II. 314 For as to the hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Paradise of Cyrus, and the Sharawaggi's of China, I have little or no Ideas of 'em.

1750 H. Walpole Let. to H. Mann 25 Feb. I am almost as fond of the Sharawaggi, or Chinese want of symmetry, in buildings, as in grounds or gardens.

1781 H. Walpole Let. to Earl of Strafford 13 June Though he was the founder of the Sharawadgi taste in England, I preached so effectually that his every pagoda took the veil.

1933 Times Lit. Suppl. 28 Dec. 913/4 Gothicism, Chinoiserie, all that may be summed up in the magic word Sharawadgi that was imposed by ignorance or mystification upon the connoisseurs of the time as a genuine Oriental art term.

1937 A. R. Humphreys William Shenstone ii. 41 Sharawadgi, as understood in England, has three main ingredients... It has no faith in mathematics and deifies irregularity... It finds beauty in infinite variety... It treats natural material according to that material's own potential organic pattern.

1944 Archit. Rev. 95 3 (heading) Exterior furnishing or sharawaggi: the art of making urban landscape.

1965 Nairn & Pevsner Buildings of England: Sussex 294 What Petworth shows more than anything else is Sharawaggi..:, good buildings of all dates mixing perfectly at least up to 1920.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	sharawaggi
释义	Sharawaggin. /ˌʃarəˈwadʒi/ Forms: Also with small initial. Also sharawadgi. Etymology: Of unknown origin; Chinese scholars agree that it cannot belong to that language. Temple speaks as if he had himself heard it from travellers. For a discussion of etymological hypotheses see 1949 Archit. Rev. CVI. 391/2. Originally (see quot. 1690). Revived in the twentieth century with particular application to landscape gardening and architecture. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > beauty of shape or form > [noun] > beautiful lack of symmetry Sharawaggi1690 1690 W. Temple Ess. Gardens of Epicurus 58 in Miscellanea: 2nd Pt. The Chineses..have a particular Word to express it [sc. the beauty of studied irregularity]; and where they find it hit their Eye at first sight, they say the Sharawadgi is fine or is admirable. ?1725 A. Pope Corr. 12 Aug. (1956) II. 314 For as to the hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Paradise of Cyrus, and the Sharawaggi's of China, I have little or no Ideas of 'em. 1750 H. Walpole Let. to H. Mann 25 Feb. I am almost as fond of the Sharawaggi, or Chinese want of symmetry, in buildings, as in grounds or gardens. 1781 H. Walpole Let. to Earl of Strafford 13 June Though he was the founder of the Sharawadgi taste in England, I preached so effectually that his every pagoda took the veil. 1933 Times Lit. Suppl. 28 Dec. 913/4 Gothicism, Chinoiserie, all that may be summed up in the magic word Sharawadgi that was imposed by ignorance or mystification upon the connoisseurs of the time as a genuine Oriental art term. 1937 A. R. Humphreys William Shenstone ii. 41 Sharawadgi, as understood in England, has three main ingredients... It has no faith in mathematics and deifies irregularity... It finds beauty in infinite variety... It treats natural material according to that material's own potential organic pattern. 1944 Archit. Rev. 95 3 (heading) Exterior furnishing or sharawaggi: the art of making urban landscape. 1965 Nairn & Pevsner Buildings of England: Sussex 294 What Petworth shows more than anything else is Sharawaggi..:, good buildings of all dates mixing perfectly at least up to 1920. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1690
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