单词 | celature |
释义 | celaturen. a. Embossing.In Bailey, Johnson, and modern dictionaries. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > [noun] > relief > execution celature1430 embossing1580 embosturea1630 embossment1801 stamping1882 1430 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy iii. xxviii With craftye archys reysed wonder clene..So merueylous was the celature. 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iii. 367 Nor was all this flowretry, and other celature on the Cedar, lost labour. b. concrete. Embossed work, an embossed figure. ΚΠ 1627 G. Hakewill Apologie iv. vi. 345 These celatures in their drinking cups were so fram'd, that they might put them on or take them off at pleasure. 1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar x. §17 They admitted even in the utensils of the Church some celatures and engravings. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1430 |
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