单词 | signpost painter |
释义 | > as lemmassignpost painter General attributive, objective, and appositive, as signpost dauber, signpost painter, signpost painting, signpost picture, signpost word, etc. ΚΠ 1674 J. Dryden et al. Notes Empress of Morocco Pref. sig. A3v That Sign-post Painter, who was famous only for drawing Roses.__ 1677 J. Dryden To Mr. Lee in N. Lee Rival Queens sig. a1v But how shou'd any Sign-post-dawber know The worth of Titian, or of Angelo? 1682 J. Dryden Medall Ep. But Sign-post painting will serve the turn to remember a Friend by. 1751 Earl of Orrery Remarks Swift (1752) 83 While there remained a sign-post painter in the world. 1779 Mirror No. 9 Those same Latin scraps,..which you sometimes hang out by way of sign-post inscription at the top of your paper. 1815 L. Simond Jrnl. Tour Great Brit. II. 216 I never saw such a collection of miserable sign-post pictures any where before. 1839 H. Martineau Deerbrook I. xvi. 171 Like the rays on a sign-post picture of the sun.__ 1906 H. W. Fowler & F. G. Fowler King's Eng. iii. 184 Unemphatic ‘sign-post’ words, essential to the connexion, standing originally at the end of the sentence. 1938 L. MacNeice I crossed Minch ii. 25 A few signpost details such as plucked eyebrows and lipstick. 1988 C. Barker Cabal iv. 38 Forgotten by mapmakers and signpost writers alike. 1999 Financial Times (Nexis) 30 Mar. Poland's signpost painters have never had it so good. < as lemmas |
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