单词 | mouchette |
释义 | mouchette /mooh shet"/, n. Archit. a daggerlike form, esp. in tracery, created by a segmental and an ogee curve so that it is pointed at one end and circular at the other. [1925-30; < F: orig., the fillet below an ovolo, projecting part of a cornice; hence, with the common sense "what protrudes," prob. deriv. of moucher to cut or knock off (something protruding) (see -ETTE), appar. extended sense of moucher to wipe (a person's) nose < VL *muccare, deriv. of L muccus, mucus MUCUS] |
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