单词 | savonarola |
释义 | Savonarolan. 1. A person considered to have the qualities of Girolamo Savonarola, esp. (in early use) a zealous reformer or spiritual leader, or (now more usually) a person who is considered austere, puritanical, or censorious in attitude. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > [noun] > conformity to high standards > excessive > one who puritan1592 Savonarola1689 square-toes1771 1689 R. Baxter Treat. Knowl. & Love Compared i. xvii. 153 Even a Galilæus, a Savonarola, a Campanella, &c. Shall feel it, if they be wiser than the rest. 1839 London & Westm. Rev. Oct. 17/1 Compare..a Savonarola with an Erasmus..and then admire the attempt to identify conscience and understanding, head and heart! 1859 Eclectic Rev. Nov. 499 Oh! that some Savonarola, or Pietro Martire could rise to create a new spirit of reform amongst their countrymen! 1916 G. B. Shaw Androcles & Lion p. xv They save society from ruin by criminals and conquerors as well as by Savonarolas and Knipperdollings. 1963 W. K. Rose in W. Lewis Lett. iii. 122 This might change abruptly to an angry, mind-scourging Savonarola. 1980 R. Ludlum Bourne Identity xvi. 252 He was a Savonarola, but without religious principles, only his own odd morality. 2008 Times (Nexis) 21 Mar. ii. 7 Having to face the maledictions of your teenage Savonarola every time you totter home a bit dishevelled and giggly. 2. More fully Savonarola chair. A kind of (usually folding) chair with an X-shaped underframe of a kind typical of the Italian Renaissance. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > folding chair beach chair1878 hammock chair1881 deckchair1884 camp-chair1885 Savonarola chair1887 Roorkee chair1905 safari chair1913 picnic chair1920 director's chair1922 Roorkee1936 transat1968 1887 157th Ann. Rep. Redwood Libr. & Athenaeum (Newport, Rhode Island) 20 A loan collection of ten paintings, four bronzes, two plaques and three Savonarola chairs. 1918 G. L. Hunter Ital. Furnit. & Interiors (1920) I. p. iv Of Italian chairs there are more types than were until recently known to exist:..folding ‘X’ chairs of the type sometimes called ‘Savonarola’, wonderful ‘Dante’ chairs. 1969 Observer 11 May (Colour Suppl.) 17 Savonarola's folding chair..gave its name to this characteristic piece of Renaissance furniture—a savonarola. 1972 Country Life 23 Mar. 723/1 Knowledgeable inspection of the oak will reveal these shams which have been sold under such names as Dante and Savonarola chairs. 2005 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 24 Apr. (Window section) g3/6 Italian Renaissance-style savonarola chair, walnut, foliate carved arms, velvet seat, folding frame, plank-form trestle-and-paw feet, pair, $2,400. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1689 |
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