单词 | antiquing |
释义 | antiquingn.ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > type of binding > [noun] antiquing1728 royal binding1808 Russia binding1817 gothique1818 half-binding1821 Roxburghe1839 paper cover1843 trade binding1874 tree-calf1879 Grolier1880 yapp1883 cloth-work1885 publisher's binding1885 tree-marble1885 treed calf1892 presentation binding1893 quarter leather1894 quarter calf1896 three-quarter binding1897 library binding1903 circuit-binding1909 publisher's cloth1911 quarter binding1912 loose back1923 open back1923 spring-back1923 spiral binding1949 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Bookbinding On the Gold thus apply'd, they..made Ornaments, with hot Irons.., the Practice of which..[was] call'd by a new-invented Name, Antiquing. 1794 H. L. Piozzi Brit. Synonymy I. 63 Du Seuil..who about the beginning of the 18th century carried to great perfection the art of gold ornamenting, or as they then called it, antiquing of books, to which custom Mr. Pope alludes. 2. The action or practice of searching or shopping for antiques, esp. as a pastime; antique collecting. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > hobby > collecting other articles > [noun] shelling1861 bugging1862 oology1869 bibliophily1877 antiquing1916 cartophily1936 deltiology1947 phillumeny1951 tegestology1960 notaphily1970 scripophily1978 1916 A. Van L. Carrick in House Beautiful Oct. 267/2 And there is the funniest old lady that we have met on our ‘antiqueing’ trips. 1974 Bucks County Courier Times (Levittown, Pa.) 16 June b2 For most of us who confine our collecting to those items made in America, this particular field of antiqueing is quite good and one may still find..interesting specimens. 2006 Washington Post (Nexis) 15 Oct. d2 You call it antiquing, I call it paying good money for someone else's junk. 3. The fabrication of an appearance of age; the action of antique v. 1. ΚΠ 1923 Daily Mail 1 Mar. 8/5 Having completed the article [of furniture], he proceeds to do the ‘antiquing’. 1976 N. H. H. Graburn Ethnic & Tourist Arts 19/2 This may lead to the sale of old masks, or to the wholesale faking and antiquing of objects. 2008 L. Ferrara Easy Fresco iii. 32/2 The unevenness of the antiquing adds to the aged appearance. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1728 |
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