单词 | mahlstick |
释义 | mahlstickn. A light stick with a padded leather ball at one end, held by an artist in one hand as a support for the hand used for painting. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > equipment for painting or drawing > [noun] > stick to steady brush mahlstick1658 stay1672 guiding-stick1857 1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words A Mosstick [1706 Maul-stick], a word used in painting, being a round stick about a yard long, which the Artist doth rest upon when he paints. 1672 W. Salmon Polygraphice 165 The Stay, or Mol-stick, is a Brazil stick (or the like) of a yard long; having [etc.]. 1784 H. L. Piozzi Diary 6 Feb. in K. C. Balderston Thraliana (1942) I. 589 What does the Word Maul Stick come from? is it not from Mahl, the German Word for Painter? 1855 W. M. Thackeray Char. Sketches in Wks. (1898) III. 537 When Titian dropped his mahlstick, the Emperor Charles V. picked it up. 1872 J. Hatton Valley Poppies I. xiii. 216 In her left hand she holds a maul-stick, upon which her right arm rests. 1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed iv. 59 I'd let you go to the deuce on your own mahl-stick. 1979 C. Hayes Compl. Guide Painting & Drawing iii. 56 A mahl stick is a long cane with a pad at the end, which is rested on the canvas to steady the painting arm. 1991 D. Harington Choiring of Trees 45 She had learned what an easel is, a palette, a mahlstick. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1658 |
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