Watteaun.
/ˈwɒtəʊ/, U.S. /wɑˈtoʊ/ Used attributively in Watteau school, Watteau-like adj.; also in designations of articles of female costume similar to those represented in Watteau's pictures, as Watteau hat.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > dress, robe, or gown > parts of > other
square1579
underbody1621
stay1688
sack-back1784
underdress1806
tablier1820
overdress1848
pouf1869
Watteau pleat1873
Watteau school1891
Watteau back1899
collar-band1907
1849 W. M. Thackeray Sketches & Trav. London in Wks. (1900) VI. 668 Watteau-like groups in shot silks.
1864 A. B. Edwards Barbara's Hist. II. iii. 21 The old designs, of a bastard Watteau school, had been lately removed.
1891 Daily News 12 Dec. 3/1 From the shoulders at the back hung a long Watteau of the richest cut jet.
1899 Westm. Gaz. 22 June 3/2 Next week I shall give drawings of an Empire and a Watteau hat.
Compounds
Watteau back n. an arrangement of the back of a dress with a broad pleat falling from the neck to the extremity of the skirt without being gathered in at the waist.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > dress, robe, or gown > parts of > other
square1579
underbody1621
stay1688
sack-back1784
underdress1806
tablier1820
overdress1848
pouf1869
Watteau pleat1873
Watteau school1891
Watteau back1899
collar-band1907
1899 Westm. Gaz. 23 Nov. 3/1 A heliotrope cashmere tea-gown, made with a Watteau back and a long straight front of silk.
Watteau bodice n. a bodice with square opening at the neck and short ruffled sleeves.
Watteau mantle n. a kind of cloak having a Watteau back and other details imitated from Watteau's pictures.
Watteau pleat n. the pleat of a Watteau back.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > dress, robe, or gown > parts of > other
square1579
underbody1621
stay1688
sack-back1784
underdress1806
tablier1820
overdress1848
pouf1869
Watteau pleat1873
Watteau school1891
Watteau back1899
collar-band1907
1873 Young Englishwoman Oct. 490/2 I have made a Princesse dress with a Watteau pleat and flounce of eleven yards of print.
1887 Brit. Textile Warehouseman 15 Sept. 70/1 The back fits the figure, but has a full Watteau pleat down the centre, fastened in at the waist, and then flowing in easy folds to the hem.
Derivatives
ˈWatteauish adj. resembling the style of Watteau.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > 17th century-mid 19th century > [adjective] > style of specific artist
Hogarthian1744
Rembrandtesque1824
Rembrandtish1827
Watteauish1833
Rembrandtic1836
Turneresque1846
Poussinesque1847
Turnerian1857
Greuze-like1860
Rubensian1877
Rembrandtian1881
Romney1883
Tiepolesque1895
Watteauesque1925
Goyaesque1934
Van Dyckian1942
Vanbrughian1947
Stubbsian1960
1833 C. Lamb in Athenæum 12 Jan. 27/1 This is well, and Watteauish.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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