| 单词 | sprig mould |
| 释义 | > as lemmassprig mould C1. General attributive, instrumental, and parasynthetic, as, sprig mould, sprig-pattern, sprig-patterned, etc. ΚΠ 1769 Public Advertiser 12 Sept. One Piece Cotton, 8 1-half Yard, three red Chintz Sprig Pattern. 1806 J. Grahame Birds Scotl. 51 Her sprig-formed nest upon some hawthorn branch Is laid so thinly. 1844 Boston Post 9 Jan. Sprig covered dishes. 1893 E. A. Barber Pottery (Pennsylvania Museum & School of Industrial Art) 19 Ginger body, with applied sprig work in yellow clay. 1914 Attica (Indiana) Daily Tribune 24 Oct. For sitting and bedrooms a pretty sprig patterned paper looks very dainty. 1951 J. B. Kenny Compl. Bk. Pottery Making vii. 123 A sprig mold is a block of plaster with a depression shaped like the ornament in reverse. 2009 V. Wood Rich Girl, Poor Girl xxiv. 274 Rosalie and Polly were wearing their prettiest gowns, Polly in her favourite blue and Rosalie in primrose yellow muslin with a sprig pattern. < as lemmas |
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