单词 | staffage |
释义 | staffagen. The accessories of a picture. Also transferred and figurative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > [noun] > a painting > accessories of parergon1601 staffage1872 1872 B. Taylor in Life & Lett. (1884) II. 594 A forge where he [Schiller] studied the staffage for his ballad of ‘Fridolin’. 1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 22 Nov. 3/1 The staffage to the little love-story is a fertile little oasis in the wide, bleak Cossack steppes. 1906 Academy 10 Nov. 480/1 But the seated figure is a needless piece of staffage. 1908 A. M. Hind Short Hist. Engraving 230 The staffage of some of Piranesi's dullest subjects..discloses an irrepressible instinct for life. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1872 |
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