| 单词 | fore-edge painting |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfore-edge painting The front or outer edge; esp. of a leaf in a book, or of the book itself. fore-edge painting (see quot. 1960). ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > parts of book > [noun] > fore-edge face1876 fore-edge1880 circuit edge1905 society > communication > book > parts of book > [noun] > fore-edge > painting on fore-edge painting1912 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 174 The fore-edge..is arm'd with a multitude of little bristles. 1880 Printing Trades Jrnl. No. 32. 1 To cut heads, tails, and fore-edges at one time. 1886 R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. III. 420 The book is placed on the shelf with the fore-edge turned outwards. 1892 J. W. Zaehnsdorf Binding of Bk. 14 Catch each succeeding leaf up by the forefinger on the top corner as near the for~edge as possible. 1912 A. J. Philip Business of Bookbinding 199 Foredge painting, pictures found, usually in old books, on the fore-edge of books. 1938 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Dec. 808/2 A seventeenth-century English Bible..with a signed fore-edge painting. 1960 G. A. Glaister Gloss. Bk. 143/2 Fore-edge painting, a water colour painted on the fanned out fore-edge of a book. 1969 Canad. Antiques Collector Apr. 23/1 Fore-edge paintings in rare books provide not only delight to collectors but mysteries in more ways than one. < as lemmas |
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