单词 | wrythening |
释义 | wrytheningn. Spirally twisted ornamentation on glassware. Cf. writhen adj. 4, writhing n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > ornamental glass-work > [noun] > other embedded or relief decoration crystallo-ceramie1821 crystallo-ceramic1822 puntya1884 reticello1899 writhing1929 wrythening1960 1960 H. Hayward Connoisseur's Handbk. Antique Collecting 313/2 Wrythening, diagonally twisted or swirled ribbing or fluting on the bowl or stem of a glass vessel. 1967 S. Crompton Eng. Glass ii. 209 (caption) Jug in bottle-green glass with white wrythening. 2008 Early Ale Glass in www.bonhams.com (accessed 1 Sept. 2021) The wrythen slender trumpet bowl above a dumb-bell stem, the top and base knops with wrythening. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021). < n.1960 |
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