单词 | valanced |
释义 | valancedadj. a. Provided or furnished with a valance or draped edging of a specified material. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > ornamental textiles > ornamental trimmings > [adjective] > bordering or edging > valance valanced1548 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. ixv The compas of the Pauilion above, enbroudered rychely, and valenced with flat golde, beten in wyre. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. ccvijv A clothe of estate..valanced with frettes. 1591 in Gentleman's Mag. (1779) 121 The Canapie was of greene satten,..valenced about and fringed with greene silke and siluer. 1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy III. xxix. 142 An old set-stitch'd chair, valanced and fringed around with party-colour'd worsted bobs. 1825 W. Scott Betrothed xi, in Tales Crusaders I. 202 [The pavilion] was of purple silk, valanced with gold embroidery, having the cords of the same rich materials. b. transferred. Also elliptical, fringed with hair. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > [adjective] ruggedc1330 hairedc1380 hairya1400 hairish1570 valanced1603 capillary1656 crinal1656 crinose1727 hirsute1823 piliform1826 capilliform1835 trichoid1867 1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. 426 What my olde friend, thy face is vallanced [1604 valanct] Since I saw thee last, com'st thou to beard me in Denmarke? 1817 M. Keating Trav. I. 113 Men, barbons, whose faces have been long vallanced, act the parts of women. 1853 G. J. Cayley Las Alforjas II. 179 A broad and nobly-cut brow, valanced with shaggy eyebrows, overhung serious, deep-set eyes. 1892 Speaker 29 Oct. 533/1 A tall-masted schooner rode grandly in between the Heads, valanced with foam. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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