单词 | constablesque |
释义 | Constablesqueadj. Resembling or similar in style to the work of the painter John Constable, esp. with regard to naturalistic depictions of the English landscape and scenes of everyday rural life.In quot. 1856 as a label of a sketch. ΚΠ 1856 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters IV. Pl. 27 The Aspen, under Idealization. 1. Ancient, or Giottesque. 2. Purist. 3. Turneresque. 4. Modern, or Blottesque. 5. Constablesque. 6. Hardingesque. 1895 G. B. Shaw in Sat. Rev. 28 Sept. 409/2 That Constablesque suggestion..of English raininess. 1971 Times 11 Dec. 14/4 Watts is often dismissed as an imitator of Constable, but this is a masterpiece in a Constable-esque vein. 2001 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 23 June 11 We viewed a wonderful flat just near where we live, endowed with—if not Impressionist—then at least Constablesque views of the whole of London. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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