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单词 pillowed
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pillowedadj.

Brit. /ˈpɪləʊd/, U.S. /ˈpɪloʊd/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pillow n., -ed suffix2; pillow v., -ed suffix1.
Etymology: Partly < pillow n. + -ed suffix2, and partly < pillow v. + -ed suffix1. Compare earlier unpillowed adj.
1. Architecture. Having a pillow capital (pillow n. 4d). Cf. cushioned adj. 3. Now rare.
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1664 J. Evelyn Acct. Archit. in tr. R. Fréart Parallel Antient Archit. 134 The Entablature above the Columns..should be Pulvinatus pillow'd, or swelling in the Ionic Order.
1734 Builder's Dict. I. at Freeze, Frieze The Frieze..is sometimes made arch'd or swelling in the Ionic, in which Case particularly, Vitruvius calls it Pulvinatus, q. d. pillowed.
1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) III. 444/3 Pillowed..2. In arch. a term applied to a rounded frieze. Called also Pulvinated.
1999 J. S. Curl Dict. Archit. 501/1 Pillowed, pulvinated, like a cushion, as in a pulvinated frieze bowing outwards in section.
2. Provided with a pillow; cushioned with (or as if with) a pillow or pillows; padded. Also in extended use.
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the world > space > relative position > support > [adjective] > supported > as on a pillow
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1726 S. Wesley tr. Homer Iliad vii. 6 Not Man himself, not Giant Man I dread, But frequent to his Couch undaunted creep; Insult triumphant o'er his pillow'd Head, Assail his Hands, and interrupt his Sleep.
?1754 Mock Monarchs II. v. 74 He..could bear but gentle Marches, upon a pillowed saddle.
1827 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1971) VI. 718 It perplexes him how to sit, even on a pillowed chair.
1885 R. F. Burton tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm. I. xxii. 223 Breast pressing breast and robed in joys their own, With pillowed forearms cast in finest mould.
a1915 J. Joyce Giacomo Joyce (1968) 14 She leans back against the pillowed wall.
1994 Face Sept. 125 The pillowed lips of these enigmatic goddesses.
3. Geology. Having or characterized by a pillow structure.
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1958 Geol. Mag. 95 241 Isolated masses of highly olivine-rich lavas within a dominantly basaltic series of pillowed flows have been found in the northern foothills of the Troodos igneous massif.
1979 H. Williams & A. R. McBirney Volcanol. v. 112 The pillowed structures were found to result from protrusion of elongated lobes, much as toothpaste is squeezed from a tube.
1993 Jrnl. Petrol. 34 820 The ˜2740-Ma volcanic rocks of the Meen–Dempster greenstone belt formed in two main cycles, each comprising a basal succession of pillowed tholeiitic basalt flows and minor iron formation overlain by massive, mainly dacitic tuff units.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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