| 单词 | of work |
| 释义 | > as lemmasof work a. Workmanship, make, style of construction; esp. with reference to ornamental workmanship. In early use also in † of work: ornamental (obsolete). Frequently with modifying word, esp. denoting place or period of origin, or a style associated with this. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > [noun] crafteOE workOE working1536 finishing1663 fancy work1842 ornamentation1851 arts and crafts1888 society > occupation and work > work > product of work > [noun] > done by hand > make or workmanship workOE OE Blickling Homilies 207 Wæs þæt ilce hus eac hwemdragen, nalas æfter gewunan mennisces weorces þæt þa wagas wæron rihte. OE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Corpus Cambr.) ii. xiii. 144 He..stænene cirican timbrede æþeles weorces [eOE Tanner geweorces]. a1275 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 61 Min þeþis [read þeyis] honket so marbre-ston in werke [rhyme sterke, derke]. c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. i. l. 179 Colers of crafty werke. 1424 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 56 Too fyne bordeclothes, þe one of werk, þe oþer playn. 1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iii. vii. 140 A gate of marble of meruayllous werke. 1529 Will of Thomas Cromwell in R. B. Merriman Life & Lett. T. Cromwell (1902) I. 57 My best ioyned bed of Flaunders wourke. a1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 296 The walls..are..incrusted with most precious marbles of various colours, & Workes. 1795 H. Cowley Town before You i. 11 Why did I never tell you before that she is a sculptor? She has a large room full of fine things of her own work. 1856 Catal. Wks. of Art of Col. Sibthorp (Christie & Manson) 28 The Virgin and Child, in the clouds, of German work, on a stand, faced with mother-o'-pearl, engraved with saints. 1889 Harper's Mag. Aug. 339/2 Six silver barrels, a number of big bowls and basins of silver which required four men to carry them,..the whole of Russian work. 1901 R. Kipling Kim i. 10 The lama mounted a pair of horn-rimmed spectacles of Chinese work. 1936 J. G. Cozzens Men & Brethren (1958) i. 20 It was oak, about four feet high—supposedly, thirteenth-century work. 2005 T. Kaplan-Maxfield Mem. Shape-shifter xi. 365 She raised a crystal goblet and proffered it to me. It was of the finest work. < as lemmas |
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