| 单词 | barley-sugar-legged |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbarley-sugar-legged C2. Used to designate features of architecture, furniture, etc., which have a twisted spiral shape resembling a stick of barley sugar; also in compounds with the sense ‘that has (a) —— resembling a stick of barley sugar’, as barley-sugar-legged adj. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [adjective] > twisted spirally woundenOE thwarlc1400 wreathenc1400 writhenc1475 thrown1534 crinkled1558 contort1570 torqued1577 writhed1578 rivelled1594 wrested1609 twound1610 twirled1611 contorted1622 tortile1658 torcular1661 roped1681 wended?1690 twisted1725 entwisteda1800 torquated1851 barley sugar1868 spirated1871 wrangled1876 rangled1924 1868 W. S. Gilbert in T. Hood 5 Alls 30/1 She was small..with a bright round face..and a quantity of barley-sugar hair, which massed itself in great folds at the back of a particularly symmetrical little head. 1906 Mag. Fine Arts Apr. 443/2 (caption) Spiral turned or ‘barley-sugar’ legged gate-table. 1908 Connoisseur July 154/1 There are two points to note about this chair besides its type. One is that the barley-sugar ‘twist’ appears in its turning. 1911 J. P. Blake & A. E. Reveirs-Hopkins Period of Queen Anne (Little Bks. Old Furnit.) ii. 31 No. 1..still possesses the old wide staircase with twisted ‘barley-sugar’ balusters and carved rose newel pendants. 1939 G. Greene Lawless Roads x. 233 Barley-sugar pillars up the façade. 1984 R. Feild Irons in Fire vii. 182 Cake baskets with ‘barley-sugar’ handles and pierced sides. 2002 Cheshire Life Aug. 167/2 A substantial amount [of Chester] was designed in the 19th century by architect John Douglas, whose ‘barley-sugar chimneys’ comprise bus stop number 20. < as lemmas |
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