单词 | trumeau |
释义 | trumeaun. 1. Also trumeau mirror. A pier-glass. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > mirror > [noun] > wall or chimney mirror pier-glass1703 pier1709 pier looking-glass1725 chimney-glass1809 pier mirror1845 mirror-wall1881 console-mirror1882 over-glass1883 trumeau mirror1883 1883 J. W. Mollett Illustr. Dict. Art & Archæol. 327/1 Trumeau, a pier looking-glass. 1941 Amer. Speech 16 27 ‘Über dem Kamin..ist ein Trumeau-Speigel.’.. Cf. ‘Trumeau’ in Cent. Dict., also in Webster's; not in NED. Nowhere do I find any reference to ‘Trumeau Mirror’. 1969 Canad. Antiques Collector May 11/1 The trumeau at the left is one of a pair flanking the dining room entrance. 1974 S. Sheldon Other Side of Midnight xiv. 278 From mantel top to ceiling rose a heavily carved trumeau mirror. 2. Architecture. A stone pillar supporting the middle of the tympanum of a doorway, esp. in a church. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > pillar > [noun] > others respoun1428 respond1448 twisted pillar1717 drum1805 responder1822 bundle pillar1842 Osiride pillar1850 trumeau1890 1890 C. H. Moore Devel. & Char. Gothic Archit. vii. 262 After the eleventh century the principal portals of great monastic and cathedral churches were commonly divided into two openings by trumeaux, or pillars of stone, affording place for sculpture, which consisted usually of a statue with more or less subordinate carving. 1936 A. W. Clapham Romanesque Archit. W. Europe iv. 100 The ‘trumeau’ at Moissac, also with its superimposed pairs of lions, stands parent to the extraordinary creation at Souillac. 1968 M. Jay tr. Bazin Hist. World Sculpture (1970) vii. 266 (caption) Trumeau of the old portal, church of Souillac. 1977 New York Rev. Bks. 12 May 8/4 The only other Romanesque church with two portals, which originally included trumeaux, is St. Lazare at Autun. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1883 |
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