| 单词 | wedding-cake |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswedding-cake wedding-cake n. a large rich cake, covered with icing and decorated with sugar ornaments, cut and distributed to the guests at the wedding-feast and sent in small portions to absent friends; also attributive; also figurative, esp. applied attributively (often somewhat dismissively) to a sumptuously ornate style of architecture, and (also absol.) to buildings in this style. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > cake for specific occasion > wedding bride cake1533 bridal cake?1613 wedding-cake1648 infare-cake1884 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > wedding festivities > [noun] > feast > cake bride cake1533 wedding-cake1648 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > style of architecture > [noun] > other styles transition1730 pasticcio1750 symmetrophobia1809 rococo1835 flamboyantism1846 collegiate Gothic1851 vernacular architecture1857 Neo-Grec1867 modernism1879 wedding-cake1879 Queen Anne1883 Colonial Revival1889 Chicago school1893 Dutch colonial1894 English colonial1894 monumentalism1897 vernacular1910 international style1911 Churrigueresque1913 postmodernism1914 prairie style1914 rationalism1918 lavatory style1919 functionalism1924 Mudéjar1927 façadism1933 open plan1938 Wrenaissance1942 pseudo1945 brutalism1953 open planning1958 neo-Liberty1959 Queen Annery1966 Jugendstil1967 moderne1968 strip architecture1976 high-tech1978 1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. X6 This day my Julia thou must make For Mistresse Bride, the wedding Cake. c1798 S. T. Coleridge Three Graves ii, in Poet. Wks. (1893) 86/2 The wedding-cake with her own hand The ruthless mother wrought. 1879 Mrs. F. D. Bridges Jrnl. Lady's Trav. round World (1883) iii. 43 The Palace, somewhat of the wedding-cake style of architecture, all over stucco ornaments and whitewash. 1925 F. S. Fitzgerald Great Gatsby i. 8 A breeze..blew curtains,..twisting them up toward the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling. 1949 H. G. Alsberg et al. American Guide 105 Kennebunk..Among numerous old mansions are..Wedding Cake H. (c. 1825), with most unusual Vict. trimmings. 1968 N.Y. City (Michelin Tire Corp.) 16 Others [sc. skyscrapers], sometimes known as wedding cakes, were covered with ornate sculpture in the 1900 ‘Gigi style’. 1971 J. Willett in A. Bullock 20th Cent. 242/1 A massive piece of wedding-cake architecture (..fortunately never built) for the projected Palace of Soviets in Moscow. < as lemmas |
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