| 单词 | inhabited scroll |
| 释义 | > as lemmasinhabited scroll b. Historiated, e.g. inhabited scroll, an arabesque pattern of foliage in which figures, birds, etc., appear. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > [adjective] > historical or legendary pageanted1539 historified1633 symbolled1895 inhabited1952 1952 D. T. Rice Eng. Art 871–1100 v. 149 On [a font] at Alphington in Devon there is an inhabited scroll border which suggests the influence of a manuscript of late-eleventh-century type. 1954 M. Rickert Painting in Brit.: Middle Ages ii. 36 This motif..is worked into running scroll patterns enclosing at intervals lively figures of birds and animals—the so-called inhabited scroll. 1959 Listener 1 Oct. 538/3 The exuberance of a St. Alban's inhabited scroll. 1970 M. Swanton Dream of Rood 12 The narrower sides of the shaft are more purely decorative, carved with the so-called ‘inhabited vine-scroll’. This is a Middle Eastern motif deriving from models like the Ravenna throne. < as lemmas |
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