| 单词 | drunkard's path |
| 释义 | > as lemmasDrunkard's Path Drunkard's Path n. (originally) a patchwork pattern in which units consisting of a quarter-circle in a square are combined to create a meandering pattern across the quilt; (hence) any arrangement of such quarter-circle units. ΚΠ 1892 Hearth & Home (Augusta, Maine) Mar. 6/2 I have several different quilt patterns, such as ‘Masonic Square’, ‘Necktie’, ‘Drunkard's Path’, etc., and will send pattern to any of the Hearth and Home readers who will pay the postage. 1933 Amer. Speech 8 35/2 Some patterns are endowed with fanciful, romantic or poetic names, the significance being often obscure or unknown: World Without End..Crosses and Losses, Drunkard's Path. 1992 Sunday Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 31 May c9/3 The ‘Drunkard's Path’ design used in quilting is so-called because it cuts a wobbly swath across the quilt top. < as lemmas |
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