blottesqueadj.

/blɒˈtɛsk/

Etymology: < blot v. + -esque suffix, after grotesque, picturesque, etc.

a. Of painting: Characterized by blotted touches heavily laid on. figurative of descriptive writing. (It belongs to the phraseology of Art-Criticism.)

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [adjective] > ponderous

ponderous1603

blottesque1856

heavy-handed1910

1856 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters IV. v. v. Pl. 27 Modern, or, Blottesque.

1856 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters IV. 80 I have given, Fig. 1., a Dureresque, and Fig. 3. a Blottesque, version of the intermediate wall.

1866 A. C. Swinburne Lett. (1959) I. 165 ‘Guy Deverell’ I think too hasty—too blurred and ‘blottesque’.

1880 Daily News 3 Jan. 2/2 The Landscape..is powerful in the unaffected blottesque manner.

1885 Spectator 24 Jan. 119/1 The fashionable blottesque school, wherewith modern painters smear their way to ‘emolument and oblivion.’

1886 Athenæum 19 June 808/3 The manner of relation [of the novel] might not inaptly be described as blottesque.

1934 H. G. Wells Exper. in Autobiogr. I. vi. 345 My notes and comments were sometimes more blottesque than edifying.

1934 H. G. Wells Exper. in Autobiogr. II. vii. 424 I sat down..to my blottesque red corrections again.

b. quasi-n. A roughly-executed picture, a daub.

ΚΠ

1882 F. G. Fleay in Jrnl. Educ. May 146 To produce showy blottesques for framing in drawing-rooms.

Derivatives

bloˈttesquely adv. with blottesque effect.

ΚΠ

1886 Ruskin in Pall Mall Gaz. 19 Jan. 2/1 Putting my pen lightly through the needless, and blottesquely through the rubbish.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

单词	blottesque
释义	blottesqueadj. /blɒˈtɛsk/ Etymology: < blot v. + -esque suffix, after grotesque, picturesque, etc. a. Of painting: Characterized by blotted touches heavily laid on. figurative of descriptive writing. (It belongs to the phraseology of Art-Criticism.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [adjective] > ponderous ponderous1603 blottesque1856 heavy-handed1910 1856 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters IV. v. v. Pl. 27 Modern, or, Blottesque. 1856 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters IV. 80 I have given, Fig. 1., a Dureresque, and Fig. 3. a Blottesque, version of the intermediate wall. 1866 A. C. Swinburne Lett. (1959) I. 165 ‘Guy Deverell’ I think too hasty—too blurred and ‘blottesque’. 1880 Daily News 3 Jan. 2/2 The Landscape..is powerful in the unaffected blottesque manner. 1885 Spectator 24 Jan. 119/1 The fashionable blottesque school, wherewith modern painters smear their way to ‘emolument and oblivion.’ 1886 Athenæum 19 June 808/3 The manner of relation [of the novel] might not inaptly be described as blottesque. 1934 H. G. Wells Exper. in Autobiogr. I. vi. 345 My notes and comments were sometimes more blottesque than edifying. 1934 H. G. Wells Exper. in Autobiogr. II. vii. 424 I sat down..to my blottesque red corrections again. b. quasi-n. A roughly-executed picture, a daub. ΚΠ 1882 F. G. Fleay in Jrnl. Educ. May 146 To produce showy blottesques for framing in drawing-rooms. Derivatives bloˈttesquely adv. with blottesque effect. ΚΠ 1886 Ruskin in Pall Mall Gaz. 19 Jan. 2/1 Putting my pen lightly through the needless, and blottesquely through the rubbish. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < adj.1856
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