单词 | backfront |
释义 | > see alsoalso refers to : back-frontn. > as lemmasback-front back-front n. Brit. /ˈbakfrʌnt/ , U.S. /ˈbækˌfrənt/ the ground in an etching or engraving.ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > [noun] > ground ground1728 back-front1752 1752 tr. E. F. Gersaint Catal. Etchings Rembrandt 59 The Back-front or Ground is generally foul. back-front 6. Architecture. ‘Any side or face of a building, but more commonly used to denote the entrance side’ (Gwilt); occasionally collective in singular, and plural = ‘the four sides’ (of a mansion). Also back-front, rear front n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > [noun] > front or face front1365 face1591 faciate1648 façade1656 frontsidea1699 frontage1861 1365 in W. H. D. Longstaffe & J. Booth Halmota Prioratus Dunelmensis (1889) 41 Non fecit clausuram tenementi sui de le front. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Ezek. xl. 9 He metide..the frount therof in two cubitis. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 181/1 Frownt, or frunt of a churche, or oþer howsys. 1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 16 And the contrary fault of low distended Fronts, is as unseemly. 1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 26 A Building, which is 25 Feet, both in the Front and Reer Front. 1772 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S. Amer. (ed. 3) II. 32 The fronts being of stone. 1803 Gazetteer Scotl. at Dundee The Town-house, an elegant structure, with a handsome front. 1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands III. 150 Monastic cloisters with their dark length of front. 1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands III. 166 One of the back-fronts of the old palace. 1888 J. W. Burgon Lives Twelve Good Men II. xii. 355 The garden front was most inconveniently embowered..in forest trees. 1893 W. P. Courtney in Academy 13 May 413/1 The fronts of the mansion were decorated with statues by skilled sculptors. < see also as lemmas |
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