| 单词 | strawberry hill |
| 释义 | > as lemmasStrawberry Hill Strawberry Hill n. Architecture the name of the house in Twickenham bought in 1747 and rebuilt by Horace Walpole after the Gothic style, used attributively to designate the style of early Gothic Revivalist architecture inspired and epitomized by this house. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > style of architecture > [noun] > Gothic > Gothic revival revival1806 churchwarden1821 American Gothic1836 Strawberry Hill1836 Gothic1841 Puginesquery1848 Gothic Revival1869 1836 R. Griffin Hist. Audley End v. 127 The chapel..was newly fitted up..according to the fashion of the day, with..clustered pilasters, and a groined ceiling, in the style called after its patron, Strawberry Hill Gothic. 1891 T. G. Bonney in Hist. Houses of United Kingdom 90 A room..now serves as a chapel... It is..a specimen of Strawberry Hill Gothic. 1928 A. Huxley Point Counter Point xix. 344 The fantastic towers and pinnacles of Gattenden Castle, built..in the most extravagant style of Strawberry Hill Gothic. 1977 Times 6 Aug. 3/3 The eleventh duke [of Norfolk] rebuilt it [sc. Arundel Castle] in the Strawberry Hill baronial fantasy style. < as lemmas |
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