单词 | burne-jones |
释义 | Burne-Jonesn. Used attributively to designate art or a type of beauty suggestive of or characteristic of the work of Burne-Jones. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [adjective] > Pre-Raphaelite > specific artists Rossettian1861 Burne-Jones1892 Burne-Jonesian1895 1892 E. Lytton Let. 15 Nov. in E. Lutyens Blessed Girl (1953) ix. 172 Lady Grandby is a beauty of the Burne-Jones type. 1958 J. Cannan And be Villain i. 25 Her Burne-Jones beauty. 1967 Vogue June 78 The Burne-Jones type was pale and lissom and romantic, hollow-cheeked and with haunted eyes. Derivatives Burne-ˈJonesian adj. and n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [adjective] > Pre-Raphaelite > specific artists Rossettian1861 Burne-Jones1892 Burne-Jonesian1895 1895 G. B. Shaw in Sat. Rev. 19 Jan. 94/2 He has a beautiful costume, mostly of plate-armour of Burne-Jonesian design. 1908 D. H. Lawrence Let. 26 Oct. (1962) I. 32 Shall I make her longer or shorter, fatter or frailer, a Burne-Jonesian or a Moore? 1925 W. Deeping Sorrell & Son xxv. 241 His sisters, pale, sweet, Burne-Jonesian. 1965 G. McInnes Road to Gundagai ix. 139 The injection of a few rich commercial corpuscles into our pale Burne-Jonesian fluid. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1892 |
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