| 单词 | conversation piece |
| 释义 | > as lemmasconversation piece conversation piece n. (a) see 10; (b) a subject for conversation; something to talk about; (c) a piece of conversation; a dialogue; (d) (see quot. 1952). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > topic of or subject for conversation or gossip talec1230 noveltyc1384 talking-stock1548 table talk1572 talk-stuff1598 talk1624 conference1633 town talk1642 conversation piece1784 talking point1922 the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > a, the, or this conversation speakc1300 dialoguec1450 speech1469 talk1548 colloquy1581 enterparlance1595 dialogism1603 colloquium1609 discourse1632 conversea1645 colloque1658 conversation1694 say1786 intercommune1820 tell1864 chin1877 conversation piece1936 rabbit1941 rabbit and pork1941 goss1983 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > other types of play king play1469 king game1504 historya1509 chronicle history1600 monology1608 horseplaya1627 piscatory1631 stock play1708 petite pièce1712 mimic1724 ballad opera1730 ballad farce1735 benefit-play1740 potboiler1783 monodrama1793 extravaganza1797 theo-drama1801 monodrame1803 proverb1803 stock piece1804 bespeak1807 ticket-night1812 dramaticle1813 monopolylogue1819 pièce d'occasion1830 interlude1831 mimea1834 costume piece1834 mummers' play1849 history play1850 gag-piece1860 music drama1874 well-made1881 playlet1884 two-decker1884 slum1885 kinderspiel1886 thrill1886 knockabout1887 two-hander1888 front-piece1889 thriller1889 shadow-play1890 mime play1894 problem play1894 one-acter1895 sex play1899 chronicle drama1902 thesis-play1902 star vehicle1904 folk-play1905 radio play1908 tab1915 spy play1919 one-act1920 pièce à thèse1923 dance-drama1924 a mess of plottage1926 turkey1927 weepie1928 musical1930 cliffhanger1931 mime drama1931 triangle drama1931 weeper1934 spine-chiller1940 starrer1941 scorcher1942 teleplay1947 straw-hatter1949 pièce noire1951 pièce rose1951 tab show1951 conversation piece1952 psychodrama1956 whydunit1968 mystery play1975 State of the Nation1980 1784 R. Bage Barham Downs II. 314 The contents of Lord Winterbottom's will, and his packet, I did intend for a conversation piece. 1936 Discovery Dec. 398/1 A biography..well leavened with conversation pieces. 1952 W. Granville Dict. Theatr. Terms 50 Conversation piece, a dialogue play or play other than one of action and excitement; e.g. the plays of George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde. 1958 J. K. Galbraith Affluent Society xvi. 176 Perhaps the bank rate..derived prestige from its position as a Victorian conversation piece. 1962 House & Garden June 96/3 Conversation-piece beakers..decorated with London characters. conversation piece 10. (In full conversation piece.) A painting representing a group of figures, esp. members of a family, arranged as if in conversation in their customary surroundings. So conversation painting. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > genre painting > a genre painting > types of conversation1712 bambocciade1816 bodegon1843 anecdote1867 slice of life1895 veduta1906 moyen-age1913 tranche de vie1934 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 474. ⁋3 None should be admitted into this green Conversation-Piece, except he had broke his Collar-bone thrice. 1763 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting III. i. 43 He imitated the manner of Terburgh, a Dutch painter of conversations. 1795 Hull Advertiser 8 Aug. 2/2 Small portraits in oil, at one guinea..Conversation Pieces in proportion. 1846 E. Head in M. Hutton tr. F. T. Kugler Hand-bk. Hist. Painting II. 289 (note) Waagen calls Terburg ‘the creator of conversation-painting’, meaning that particular branch of genre, which bears the same relation to historical painting on the one side, and to the buffooneries of Jan Steen on the other, that ‘genteel comedy’ bears respectively to tragedy and to farce. 1891 Bookman Oct. 29/2 ‘The Finances of the gods’ is a masterpiece..such an interior—one almost fancies Metsu painting a conversation-piece. < as lemmas |
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