单词 | grande sonnerie |
释义 | grande sonnerien. A striking system in a mechanical clock or watch which permits both the hour and the quarter to be struck at each quarter hour. In early use chiefly with capital initials. ΘΚΠ the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > striking or stroke stroke1436 beat1706 strike1871 grande sonnerie1932 1893 Jewelers' Circular & Horol. Rev. 23 Aug. 43/1 ‘Une grande sonnerie’—when the hands pass the hour or the quarter, the bell will strike itself.] 1932 Yachting Apr. 99 (advt.) The case is of oak veneered with ebony. Eight-day movement with three trains Grande Sonnerie. 1938 H. Cescinsky Old Eng. Master Clockmakers iii. 13 There are..quarter-strike, chiming, ‘Grand Sonnerie’, and musical clocks. 1963 Times 12 Jan. 10/6 A late eighteenth-century grande sonnerie mantel clock. 1981 E. Bruton Wetherfield Coll. Clocks 87 (caption) It will strike, and if required repeat, the hours and quarters at each quarter (grande sonnerie). 2013 S. Perman Grand Complication xiii. 182 His..[watch] contained an open-face enamel dial minute repeater, grande sonnerie, and two up-and-down indicators. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1932 |
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