| 单词 | lightship basket |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslightship basket lightship basket n. U.S. (in full Nantucket lightship basket) a type of handwoven basket originally made by the crews of lightships (see quot. 1891).Lightship baskets are made from canes woven over a mould, and have a solid wooden base. They are associated especially with the lightships of Nantucket Island, and are now made as decorative items and fashion accessories. ΚΠ 1891 Cent. Mag. Aug. 544/2 A number of stores in Nantucket sell what are known as lightship baskets. They come in ‘nests’, a nest consisting of five or eight baskets... [The crew] make them chiefly for the purpose of whiling away the weary winter hours. 1995 House Beautiful Nov. 24/1 [They] were newlyweds on a Nantucket holiday when they fell in love with four lightship baskets—each signed on the handle by the lighthouse keeper who had woven them from oak splints during his solitary vigil. 2020 N. Y. Times (Nexis) 19 Jan. a24 She loved art and design... She was..a prolific weaver of Nantucket lightship baskets. < as lemmas |
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