单词 | nuremberg |
释义 | Nurembergn. I. Compounds. 1. attributive. Designating a type of porcelain manufactured in Nuremberg. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [adjective] > porcelain > European porcelain Nuremberg1617 St. Cloud1721 Dresden1735 Limoges1844 Capo di Monte1850 Frankenthal1863 Zurich1870 Rosenthal1898 Copenhagen1911 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. ii. iii. 80 The Germans export..Nurnberg wares (so they call small wares.) 1863 W. Chaffers Marks & Monograms Pottery & Porcelain 105 Nuremburg, there are two plates of the XVIIIth Century in the Sèvres Museum; one in imitation of Faenza, the other an allegory of Luther. 1876 Atlantic Monthly Aug. 236/1 The old Nuremberg ware, dear to antiquarians, which is also there. 1925 B. Rackham tr. E. Hannover Pottery & Porcelain I. iv. 355 Chinese motives..are not wanting in Nuremberg faïence in the first and best period. 1974 Country Life 6 June 1411/3 The architectural detail is executed in scagliola and the walls are clad in Nuremburg tiles. 1987 E. David Omelette & Glass of Wine (BNC) 187 A squat Nuremberg bowl for the centrepiece and eight or ten specimen glasses of the same ware. 2. attributive. Designating a type of watch made in Nuremberg in the 16th cent. Frequently as Nuremberg egg. historical. ΘΚΠ the world > time > instruments for measuring time > watch > [adjective] > of types of watch jewelled1786 Nuremberg1847 open-faced1855 stem-winding1867 pendant winding1868 key-winding1870 split-second1884 stem-wind1900 1847 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) 5 448 Puritanism was in England before the ‘Nuremberg eggs’, (as they called pocket watches). 1860 J. A. Eames Budget Closed 239 The first watches were made here in 1500, and from their oval shape, they received the name of ‘Nuremberg eggs’. 1895 H. L. Nelthropp Catal. Collection Clocks 2 Nuremberg egg-shaped watch, metal and silver case. 1960 H. Hayward Connoisseur's Handbk. Antique Collecting 201/1 Nuremberg egg, a misnomer applied to early South German watches. Arose from the misreading and mistranslation of ‘Uhrlein’ into ‘Eierlein’ (little clocks into little eggs). These early watches were usually drum shaped. 1999 Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Va.) (Nexis) 31 Jan. m12 Peter Henlin of Nuremberg builds the first watch, called the Nuremberg Egg. 3. German History a. Nuremberg rally n. any of a series of mass meetings of the German Nazi party, held annually in Nuremberg from 1933 to 1938. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [noun] > mass meeting of party > specific Nuremberg rally1934 stryddag1950 1934 Times 12 Sept. 11/5 There is no question that the thoroughness and efficiency of the Nazi organization which has undertaken and carried through such a colossal task as the Nuremberg rally has been fully recognized by visitors from abroad. 1952 A. Bullock Hitler ii. vii. 347 The Nuremberg rallies held every year in September were masterpieces of theatrical art, with the most carefully devised effects. 1995 E. A. Zillmer et al. Quest for Nazi Personality viii. 146 He was given the important post of preparing the annual Nuremberg rallies. b. Nuremberg Laws n. laws passed in 1935 barring Jewish people from German citizenship and forbidding intermarriage between Aryans and Jews. ΘΚΠ society > law > types of laws > [noun] > relating to ethnic minorities Fleming-lauche?c1629 black code1749 Jew Bill1753 Nuremberg Laws1937 Group Area1950 1937 O. I. Janowsky & M. F. Fagen Internat. Aspects German Racial Policies ii. 106 Even the official commentary on the Nuremberg laws..concluded that the German Jews were a racial (voelkische), though not a national minority. 1971 M. McCarthy Birds of Amer. 110 Under the Nuremberg Laws, he would have counted as a Jew, while in Israel he would count as a Christian, since what mattered to them was your mother. 1997 New Yorker 28 Apr. 166/1 According to the Nazi classification in the Nuremberg Laws, her father was a so-called Mischling. c. Nuremberg trial n. any of a series of trials of former Nazi leaders for alleged war crimes, presided over by an International Military Tribunal representing the victorious Allied Powers and held in Nuremberg in 1945–6; usually in plural. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > trying or hearing of cause > [noun] > trial > specific trials monkey trial1925 Nuremberg trial1945 1945 Daily Mail 19 Nov. 2/3 All day today Lord Justice Lawrence and Mr. Justice Birkett have been discussing..the arguments for and against postponement of the Nuremberg trials. 1993 GQ Feb. 157/2 I had half-expected this to be done in the lighthearted manner of a Saturday Night Live skit... Actually, the event had all the levity of the Nuremberg trials. 2002 Mirror (Electronic ed.) 13 Feb. In the most important war crimes hearing since the Nuremberg trials..60-year-old Milosevic faces life imprisonment for genocide and crimes against humanity. d. attributive. Designating or relating to the Nuremberg trials. ΚΠ 1946 New Yorker 9 Mar. 80/1 Nuremberg defense counsel have just offered..an absolutely first-rate demonstration of the still unreconstructed prewar German mind. 1970 Guardian 20 Nov. 12/6 The Nuremberg precedents demand that..American high commanders ought to be tried for war crimes. 1991 Village Voice (N.Y.) 3 Dec. 27/5 Others are pushing for war-crimes trials, patterned after the Nuremburg proceedings. II. Simple uses. 4. The Nuremberg trials. Also (in extended use): a trial for war crimes. ΚΠ 1945 H. Nicolson Diary 4 June (1968) III. 64 Smuts recalled the decision... ‘It..shows..the value of Nuremberg. Had we shot Jodl at sight, that precious piece of evidence would never have been obtained.’ 1970 Guardian 20 Nov. 12/6 Ever since Vietnam got big, Nuremberg has been injected into the national argument. 1991 World Monitor Dec. 16/1 With characteristic boldness Landsbergis immediately offered Vilnius as a ‘Nuremberg’ for putting ‘the criminals of Bolshevism’ on trial. 1993 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 4 Nov. 72/1 Another standard complaint against Nuremberg, which Deák echoes, is that it constituted ‘victor's justice’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1617 |
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