| 单词 | spoon-back |
| 释义 | > as lemmasspoon-back spoon-back n. the back of a chair (of a type esp. popular in the late-18th and 19th cent.) curved concavely to fit the shape of the occupant; a chair of this style; hence attributive, as spoon-back chair. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > chair with back > of specific type wainscot chair1663 Windsor chair1724 slat-back1891 comb-back1901 Windsor1901 wheel-back1902 hoop-back1905 ladder-back1908 spoon-back1909 Mendlesham chair1935 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > parts of chairs > back > type of splat1833 yoke back1835 fiddle-back1890 shield1897 comb-back1901 spoon-back1909 1909 G. O. Wheeler Old Eng. Furnit. (ed. 2) v. 167 In our illustration..we see one of those transitional specimens with cane-panels and spoon-back. 1936 Burlington Mag. July 42/2 Half-way between the spoon-back chair and the strapwork back of the George II period. 1969 J. Gloag Short Dict. Furnit. (ed. 2) 636 Spoon back, sometimes used in America for the banded back chair, of the Queen Anne period, the term may have been suggested because the profile of the back resembles the curve of a spoon. In England a comparatively rare early 19th century chair with an open concave back and semi-circular top rail is called a spoon-back. 1979 A. Scholefield Point of Honour 40 We sat down in two Victorian spoon-back chairs. < as lemmas |
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