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单词 retrait
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retraitn.

Forms:

α. 1500s retraitt, 1500s retrate, 1600s–1700s retrait.

β. 1600s retraict.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French retrait.
Etymology: < Middle French retrait, retraict picture, portrait (c1400), specific sense (perhaps after Italian ritratto ritratto n.) of retrait retreat n. (see discussion at that entry). Compare earlier portrait n. With the β. forms compare retraict n.
Obsolete. rare.
A visual representation; a picture, a portrait. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > portrait-painting > a portrait
portraiturec1385
physiognomy1483
picture1505
portrait1585
retrait1590
model1605
ritratto1629
family portrait1732
portrait picture1853
α.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. iii. sig. P2 Vnder the shadow of her euen browes, Working belgardes, and amorous retrate.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. ix. sig. V3v Shee is the mighty Queene of Faery, Whose faire retraitt I in my shield doe beare.
1651 Hermeticall Banquet 71 Like ambitious Painters, which never thinking their Retraits finished, with too much Curiosity spoil the whole Peece.
1755 M. Mendez Squire of Dames ii. xxxix, in R. Dodsley Coll. Poems IV. 154 To see the glass, he darts into the cell; And, lest his eyes by vild retrait be crost, Thrice he invokes his lovely Columbel.
β. ?1609 W. Bedell Let. (Lansd. 90) f. 138 Yt proud & blasphemous inscription of Friar Caraffa his Theses, whereof a Retraict was sent by his Lp to his Matie, where ye P. [= pope] is thus stiled Pavlo. V. vice deo.1634 C. Downing State Eccl. Kingdom 54 The Retraict is formed like waxe to take the impression of the present aspect and necessitie of affaires.1652 J. Howell Hermeticall Banquet iv. 128 He gave entertainment to himself..by viewing the Retraicts of those proud Egypptian Pyramides, with that Rhodian Colossus.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

retraitadj.

Forms: late Middle English retrait, 1600s retrayte.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French retrait, retraire.
Etymology: < Middle French retrait, past participle of retraire (see retreat v.1). Compare retrayte, past participle variant of retreat v.1 (see β. forms at that entry).
Obsolete. rare.
1. Set apart, reserved for a person.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [adjective] > separated or cut off from > separated from main body > for a purpose
retrait?c1475
reserved1565
set-aside1943
?c1475 ( in J. Stevenson Lett. & Papers Illustr. Wars Eng. in France (1864) II. 590 (MED) The most notable tounes and placis..shuld be retrait for the saide capitaineries and there feleshippes be geven.
2. Of a place: secluded.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > secluded place or place of seclusion > [adjective]
secrec1374
blindc1386
privatea1513
secret?a1513
shadowy1555
close1571
retired1593
retrait1603
sequestrate1632
recessful1646
recluse1650
reserved1653
secessive1653
coy1670
sequestrated1726
slya1764
secluded1798
shy1841
retiracied1856
undisprivacied1870
madding1874
1603 S. Harsnett Declar. Popish Impostures 61 Some of theyr lodges so obscure, and retrayte, as none but a priest or deuil could euer haue sented it out.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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