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单词 staffage
释义 I. staffage|ˈstafaːʒ|
[Ger.: a pseudo-Fr. formation after G. staffiren to fit out, garnish, believed to be corruptly ad. OF. estoffer, f. estoffe stuff n.]
The accessories of a picture. Also transf. and fig.
1872B. Taylor in Life & Lett. (1884) II. 594 A forge where he [Schiller] studied the staffage for his ballad of ‘Fridolin’.1887Pall Mall Gaz. 22 Nov. 3/1 The staffage to the little love-story is a fertile little oasis in the wide, bleak Cossack steppes.1906Academy 10 Nov. 480/1 But the seated figure is a needless piece of staffage.1908A. M. Hind Short Hist. Engraving 230 The staffage of some of Piranesi's dullest subjects..discloses an irrepressible instinct for life.
II. staffage
Sc. variant of staffish a. Obs.
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