| 单词 | longs and shorts |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslongs and shorts c. longs and shorts. extracted from longadj.1n.1 (a) Prosody. Elegiac meter; poetry composed in this meter, esp. as a school exercise. Cf. long and short adj. 1. Now rare.So called because it consists of alternating hexameters and pentameters. ΚΠ 1810 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 361 Our Latinists have tortured longs and shorts, to the great advantage of those who..begin to lisp propria quæ maribus. 1871 M. Arnold Friendship's Garland vi. 51 ‘I have seen some longs and shorts of Hittall's’, said I, ‘about the Calydonian Boar, which were not bad’. 1901 Law Times 22 June 181/1 The way to glory at Eton was..by the admired art of Latin versification, the manufacture of ‘longs and shorts’. 1934 J. Buchan Free Fishers ii. 31 He remembered something of a poem of Burns, which he had once turned into Latin longs and shorts. (b) Masonry and Bricklaying. Long and short blocks or bricks placed alternately in a vertical line; the style of masonry characterized by this arrangement. Cf. long and short adj. 2. Now historical and rare.Chiefly with reference to Anglo-Saxon architecture. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > disposition of stones or bricks > [noun] > types of disposition of stones emplecton1601 isodomon1601 pseudisodomon1601 net-masonry1706 Greek masonry1728 longs and shorts1884 random1886 1853 G. Godwin Hist. in Ruins x. 140 Hewn stones placed alternately flat and on end, which have been called ‘longs and shorts’. 1884 J. Earle Anglo-Saxon Lit. 54 Of Saxon construction a chief peculiarity is that which is called ‘longs and shorts’. It occurs in coins of towers, in panelling work, and sometimes in door jambs. 1967 N.Y. Times 3 Sept. (Real Estate section) 2/6 ‘Longs and shorts’ became prominent. This method emphasizes the bricks at the corners of the house by having them jut out from the wall, alternating between a long and short brick. < as lemmas |
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