| 单词 | wheel-back |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswheel-back wheel-back n. a back resembling a wheel, characteristic of chairs made by Heppelwhite about 1775; also a chair with such a back. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > chair with back > of specific type wainscot chair1663 Windsor chair1724 slat-back1891 comb-back1901 Windsor1901 wheel-back1902 hoop-back1905 ladder-back1908 spoon-back1909 Mendlesham chair1935 1902 W. H. Hackett Decorative Furnit. xi. 133 A set of six typical Heppelwhite [sic] chairs..had ‘wheel’ backs, on taper legs, with cross stretchers. 1909 G. O. Wheeler Old Eng. Furnit. (ed. 2) 489 Heppelwhite's wheel-back chair..may be found with cabriole legs, and later with typical straight tapered ones. 1927 W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 90 The revival of Welsh dressers, wheel-backs and ladderbacks. 1968 J. Arnold Shell Bk. Country Crafts 133 In the hand-made ‘wheel~back’ there is the vestigial hub in the centre, but for economy this is absent from the factory-made splat. < as lemmas |
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