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单词 cat's-head
释义 cat's-head
1. ‘A kind of apple’ (J.).
1617Rider, A Cats head, Pomum decumanum.1676Worlidge Cyder (1691) 207 The Cats head, by some called the Go-no-further, is a very large Apple.1767Abercrombie Ev. Man own Gard. (1803) 671/2 List of Fruit Trees. Apples..French rennet, Cat's head, Leather-coat russet.
2. An ornament in Norman architecture.
1848Rickman Goth. Archit. (ed. 5) xxiii, The doorway..combines the zigzag, and cat's-head with the tooth ornament.1853A.P.S. Dict. of Arch. I, Bird's Head ornament, sometimes called Bird's beak head, and Cat's head molding..decoration consisting of conventional heads of monsters generally terminating in a beard formed of one or more other heads, of foliage, or of beaks.
3. See cat-head n.
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