单词 | tombstone-shaded |
释义 | > as lemmastombstone-shaded a. In sense 1, as tombstone carving, tombstone monument, tombstone-shaded, etc. ΚΠ 1751 B. Lynde Diary 16 Oct. in B. Lynde & B. Lynde Diaries (1880) 176 Yesterday Cox and Stacey ½ day abo. Tombstone monument. 1791 F. Burney Let. 1 Aug. in Jrnls. & Lett. (1972) I. 12 We determined..to prowl to the Church Yard, & read the Tombstone inscriptions. 1826 T. Hood Valentine ii, in Whims & Oddities 8 Just stopp'd before The tombstone steps that lead us to death's door. 1843 G. M. Musgrave Parson, Pen, & Pencil I. viii. 275 Shrine manufacturers, tombstone-cutters, sculptors, and masons, garland-weavers and relic-vendors. 1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors II. viii. 206 Again they lay as tombstone effigies, that have committed the passage of affairs to another procession of the Ages. 1905 Daily Chron. 24 Apr. 4/5 An elderly man was sitting dejectedly on the tombstone-shaded bench. 1958 Connecticut Hist. Soc. Apr. 33 Of all the native crafts it is safe to say that this one of tombstone carving developed and evolved more independently of European culture than any other. 2014 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 19 Oct. (T Style Mag.) 58/1 Revealing to the world sleeves of tattooed fleurs du mal that, when zoomed, resemble tombstone art. < as lemmas |
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