单词 | parian |
释义 | Pariann.adj. A. n. 1. A native or inhabitant of the Greek island of Paros. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Greeks > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Greece > Greek islands Rhodianc1450 Naxianc1487 Candian1549 Melian1550 Parian1550 Sciote1553 Cretan1579 Samian1579 Leucadian1615 Sciana1641 Siphnian1709 Septinsular1807 Ionian1816 Corfiote1835 Naxiote1859 1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War iv. xiii. f. 119 Being nyghe the towne of Thase, whyche was a colonie of the Paryans, distante frome Amphipolis aboute one journey by sea. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage iii. xvi. 277 The Parians cousened the Lampsacens. 1629 T. Hobbes tr. Thucydides Eight Bks. Peloponnesian Warre iv. 270 Thasus (which is an island, and a colonie of the Parians, distant from Amphipolus, about halfe a dayes sayle). 1753 W. Smith tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War II. iv. 85 Thasus is an island, a colony of the Parians, and distant about half a day's sail from Amphipolis. a1825 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XVII. 487/2 Themistocles made the Parians pay severely for their perfidy to Aristides. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XX. 861/1 So high was the reputation of the Parians that they were chosen by the people of Miletus to arbitrate in a party dispute. 1978 J. Carson & J. Clark Paros (rev. ed.) 5 Campers have established a good reputation among Parians. 2000 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 28 Sept. 3 Parians have always had a name for being lively, discursive, adaptable, and good dancers. 2. Also occasionally with lower-case initial. Parian porcelain; Parian ware (see sense B. 2). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [noun] > porcelain > porcelain or china of specific colour blue china1783 Parian1824 famille rose1868 famille verte1868 blue1869 imperial yellow1875 duck('s)-egg china1897 famille noire1898 famille jaune1901 powder blue1910 sang-de-bœuf1960 1824 Lancet 11 Jan. 70/1 [His] bust of ‘polished Parian’ now presides. 1850 Jrnl. of Design 4 45 Messrs Minton and Copeland almost simultaneously introduced the new ‘body’ in pottery..called Parian, statuary porcelain, carraran, &c. 1868 Overland Monthly Oct. 327/2 Mr. Minton received $5,000 for a service of Turquoise and Parian. 1975 Country Life 13 Nov. (Suppl.) 32f/1 Henri Deux ware, earthenware and parian. 1993 Antique Dealer Aug. 31/1 Minton was one of the first to make fine parian. 3. = Parian cement n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > plaster > [noun] > other kinds of plaster lime-slab1608 roughcast1609 lime and hair1626 parge1649 chunam1687 impastation1728 stuff1812 mastic paint1839 parget1842 Parian cement1858 Madras stucco1859 Keene's cement1869 gatch1886 Parian1886 1886 H. C. Seddon Builder's Work vi. 238 Parian is a white cement. 1967 A. G. Geeson Building Sci. Materials (ed. 2) II. i. 56 Adhesion on Keene's or Parian is notoriously poor. B. adj. 1. Of or relating to Paros; spec. designating the fine white marble, prized in antiquity by sculptors, for which the island was renowned. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > Greece > [adjective] > Greek islands Ionic1483 Rhodiana1533 Candian1559 lesbian1559 Cretan1579 Ionian1579 Ortygian1582 Parianc1602 Lemnian1611 Carpathian1637 lesbic1659 Eubœan1660 Melian1684 Sciote1718 Minoan1830 Naxiote1859 Corfiote1877 Knossian1894 Siphnian1895 Cycladic1915 Leucadian1952 c1602 C. Marlowe tr. Ovid Elegies i. vii. sig. A7v Sighing she stood, her blood-lesse white lookes shewed, Like marble from the Parian Mountaines hewed. 1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. R2v Two goodly pillars of Parian marble. 1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 46 I had rather have a good piece of rough Parian marble. 1700 M. Prior Carmen Sæculare 16 There shall the King in Parian Marble Breath. 1762 W. Falconer Shipwreck iii. 45 The port an Image bears of Parian stone. 1815 E. B. Norton Alcon Malanzore iii. 87 Slow sank her head upon that Parian arm, Whose dazzling whiteness matched her cheek's pale charm. 1850 H. Taylor Sicilian Summer i. ii And teach us, not jejunely what we are, But what we may be when the Parian block Yields to the hand of Phidias. 1946 R. Capell Simiomata i. 32 In the Parian bay we had not yet got into touch with the patrol before a signal came from Naxos. 1991 S. Walker Roman Art (BNC) 22 The figure is carved from a huge block of Parian marble. 2nd century AD. 2. Also occasionally with lower-case initial. Designating or relating to a type of fine white porcelain ware resembling Parian marble, first produced in England in about 1840 and consisting mainly of large statuettes. ΚΠ 1847 H. Minton Let. 28 Dec. in G. A. Godden Minton Pottery & Porcelain (1968) 160 If the Ariadne would do in our Parian material, instead of Bisque China, we could send it immediately. 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxvi. 97 A light, fanciful bamboo table stood in the middle of the room, where a Parian vase..stood, ever filled with flowers. 1872 Ladies' Repository Feb. 131/2 It was a calla lily, in Parian ware, that Elsie had seen on the afternoon of their ‘spree’. 1894 U. S. Tariff in Times 16 Aug. 6/3 China, porcelain, parian, bisque, earthen, stone, and crockery ware. 1940 B. Leach Potter's Bk. iii. 62 The famous Parian ware composed of two parts of feldspar to one part of china clay..was chiefly used for unglazed statuettes. 1959 L. Gross Housewives' Guide to Antiques viii. 99 Parian ware is a hard-paste, unglazed porcelain which resembles marble. 1990 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 23 Oct. 22/7 W. H. Goss, of Stoke-upon-Trent, made the first examples in a fine-glazed parian body in the 1880s. Compounds Parian cement n. a plaster which sets to a very hard finish, made with gypsum and borax. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > plaster > [noun] > other kinds of plaster lime-slab1608 roughcast1609 lime and hair1626 parge1649 chunam1687 impastation1728 stuff1812 mastic paint1839 parget1842 Parian cement1858 Madras stucco1859 Keene's cement1869 gatch1886 Parian1886 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products 276/1 Parian-cement, a fine or coarse cement, according to the purpose for which it is to be used. 1911 W. Jago Technol. Bread-making xxiii. 586 Walls and Ceiling.—These should preferably be of washable material (glazed bricks, parian cement, tiles or the like). 1995 Times (Nexis) 18 Feb. (Features section) In the hall, bands of Minton tiles alternate with smoky blue Parian cement paving. Parian Chronicle n. Ancient Greek History the chronicle inscribed on a marble stele originally set up on Paros, giving a record of ancient Greek history from the reign of Cecrops, the legendary first king of Athens, to 263–4 b.c. (now usually known as the Marmor Parium). ΚΠ 1788 J. Robertson Parian Chron. i. 43 The Parian Chronicle, engraved on a marble tablet of considerable extent, is supposed to have been written 264 years before the Christian æra. 1858 Biblical Repertory July 433 Danaus, according to the Parian Chronicle, arrived in Greece B. C. 1485. 1906 Classical Philol. 1 315 This view is now shown to be erroneous by a newly discovered fragment of the Parian Chronicle. 1986 Classical Q. New Ser. 36 214 This date cannot simply be a textual error or the result of a slip on Plutarch's part, for it also appears in the Parian Chronicle. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.adj.1550 |
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