单词 | silver plate |
释义 | silver platen. 1. a. A thin flat piece of silver. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > gilding and silvering > [noun] > coating with silver > silver leaf or plate silver-foil1439 silver plate1526 leaf silvera1577 plate silver1648 silver-leaf1728 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. xxvii. f. xl And he cast doune the sylver plates in the temple, and departed. 1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Agst. Idolatry i. sig. F f j Shall the goldsmyth couer hym with golde and caste hym into a fourme of syluer plates? 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Silver Several Preparations are made from it: Particularly, a Tincture of Silver, by dissolving thin Silver Plates, or Silver Shot in Spirit of Nitre. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XV. 37/2 The ring..is first tinned, and then the silver-plate is gently hammered upon it. 1845 Athenæum 203 The delicately sensitive film which is formed on the silver plate in the Daguerréotype process. 1865 Chambers's Encycl. VII. 509/1 The sensibility of the silver plate was still further increased by Mr. Goddard. b. A silver dish in the form of a plate. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > table-vessels > dish or plate disha700 scuttlec1050 trencherc1308 plattera1325 paten?1340 esquele1371 skelec1400 plat1415 plate?c1450 skewel1567 trencher-plate1580 goggan1586 trench1602 table plate1669 mazarine1673 discus1680 wearing plate1683 silver plate1710 nappy1731 roundel1797 muffin1820 entrée dish1846 pinax1858 1710 Tatler No. 245. ⁋2 A broad brimmed flat silver plate for sugar with Rhenish wine. 2. collective. Vessels or utensils made of silver or an alloy of silver. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > artistic work in metal > [noun] > art of working in silver > articles silvera1400 presentation silver1511 silver-work1535 silver plate1610 silverware1862 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 184 Pewter vessels..compared with silver plate. 1655 W. Gouge & T. Gouge Learned Comm. Hebrewes (xiii. 1) iv. 5 As silver-plate cleared is counted new, so this Commandment. 1717 A. Ramsay Elegy Lucky Wood iv Her peuther glanc'd..Like siller plate. 1853 C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts (1854) II. 633/1 The alloy of silver and copper used..for the manufacture of silver-plate. 1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 413 Round the apartment..was displayed in close array the silver and pewter plate. 3. Used as a jocular representation of French s'il vous plaît please. slang. ΚΠ 1919 Yank Talk 4/1 (caption) Silver plate! Loan me a coupla francs! 1920 Dial. Notes 5 79 Silver plate, s'il vous plaît. ‘More of the mutton, Mr. Brown, silver plate.’ This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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