单词 | chinese rice paper |
释义 | > as lemmasChinese rice paper 1. (a) More fully Chinese rice paper. Thin, translucent paper made from the flattened and dried pith of the plant Tetrapanax papyrifer, used esp. in East Asian painting and the manufacture of artificial flowers. (b) Paper made partly or wholly from rice straw. rare. (c) More fully Japanese rice paper. Thin, strong paper made from the paper mulberry or any of several other plants; cf. washi n.The pith of the Indo-Pacific tree Scaevola sericea is also said to have been used for the making of rice paper (see rice-paper plant n. (c) at Compounds). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > material for making paper > paper > [noun] > paper made from other materials rice paper1808 straw paper1854 1808 Hull Advertiser 11 Jan. A General Assortment of such Articles as are used for Ornamenting Works of Fancy, is always kept on hand, consisting of Morocco papers; Cyprus, Splash, and various Fancy Papers; Rice Paper; Gold and Coloured Borderings. 1819 Times 27 July 4/2 4,000 sheets of fancy papers, rice-paper, Chinese, pink, and scarlet paper. 1832 Gardener's Mag. 8 381 To exemplify the brittleness of cellular tissue, Mr. Lindley exhibited a specimen of Chinese rice paper, made from the medullary substance of the Æschynomene paludosa Roxb. 1857 A. Henfrey Elem. Course Bot. 311 The substance called Rice-paper, prepared by the Chinese, consists of thin slices of the pith of Aralia papyrifera. 1871 A. E. Moule Four Hundred Millions ii. 48 There is a kind of paper used in Fuh-chau called rice-paper, made from rice-straw; some is also made of cotton, some from the bark of mulberry-trees. 1913 A. B. F. M. Redesdale Trag. in Stone (ed. 2) 109 The true rice paper made from the rice straw is the coarse cheap yellow paper used for packing. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1401 ‘Rice-paper’, used for colour-printing, especially in China and Japan, has no connection with the rice plant; it is the finely sliced and pressed pith of the rice-paper tree, peculiar to Formosa. 1973 N. Spinrad in T. Shippey Oxf. Bk. Sci. Fiction (1992) 433 I received two packages from Mr Shiburo Ito. One was a mailing envelope containing a minicassette and a holo slide; the other was a heavy package about the size of a shoebox wrapped in blue rice paper. 1999 N.Y. Times 13 Aug. e38/2 In ‘Stacked Books’ (1998), a palladium print on Japanese rice paper, Jed Devine seems to compare three piles of brand new books to airy Isamu Noguchi light sculptures. 2006 Westerly (Rhode Island) Sun 8 Oct. 13/1 His gyotaku prints often have a variety of colors and settings that greatly differ from the traditional black ink on rice paper. < as lemmas |
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