单词 | busto |
释义 | buston. Now rare. = bust n.2 2a.In quot. 1626 perhaps: = bust n.2 1. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > statuary > [noun] > statue > bust or torso block1535 term1604 busto1626 torse1634 terminus1638 busty1684 bust1691 shoulder-piece1692 protome1737 torso1797 portrait bust1827 terminal1876 term figure1880 1626 Sir T. Roe Let. Nov. in C. A. M. Fennell tr. A. Michaelis Anc. Marbles Great Brit. (1882) I. 199 I have foure bustoes, and some heades and peices collected in Asya and Paris. 1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) i. 168 The statues, or bustos of three or four of the Great Dukes, in Porphyry. a1680 J. Bargrave Pope Alexander VII (1867) ii. 117 An handsome ancient busto (as called at Rome) of Augustus—that is, the head and shoulders—in brass. 1748 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 4) II. 135 A fine Busto of Dr. Harvey. 1754 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VII. v. 20 It is ornamented with pictures..statues, bustoes, bronzes. 1803 H. K. White My Study in Clifton Grove 77 Nor think it ought of a misnomer To christen Chaucer's busto Homer. 1863 G. A. Sala Strange Adventures Capt. Dangerous I. iii. 64 Bustos, pictures, and prints cut in brass. 1971 D. Davie in Atlantis Nov. 40 Nollekens had little sense Of decency, yet could dispense With it, to mould a busto. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1626 |
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