| 单词 | side wing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasside wing side wing n. (a) Architecture a wing projecting from the side of a building; (b) Theatre a piece of scenery or movable screen at the side of a stage; (in plural) the areas to either side of a stage out of view of the audience; the wings; †(c) (in plural) sideburns (obsolete rare). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > stage > [noun] > sides side-scene1675 side wing1698 slips1771 prompt sidec1782 wing1790 side-slip1808 coulisse1819 prompt corner1872 tormentor1886 P1901 the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > styles of whiskers side wing1811 mutton chop1851 Dundreary whiskers1859 mutton cutlet1860 Piccadilly weeper1866 burnside1875 Dundrearies1876 sideburn1876 sidebar whiskers1882 sideboards1883 weeper1894 slugger1898 ear guards1905 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 270 The Side-Wings [sc. of the temple] and the Middle half way down the Nave, being left for the Men; all the rest is Occupied by the Women. 1707 E. Settle Siege of Troy iii. 23 The Scene opens and discovers a Grove..over a Tarras Walk, is seen a Beautiful Garden of six side Wings. 1811 M. Wells Mem. Life Mrs. Sumbel III. 220 And a fourth, with locks bushed out on his temples, burlesquing the side-wings of your noble head. 1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park I. xiii. 257 Just a side wing or two run up..and three or four scenes to be let down. View more context for this quotation 1819 J. Dugdale New Brit. Traveller III. 577/2 The mansion is a substantial..building..with two side wings projecting from each front. 1881 Atlantic Monthly Sept. 402/1 It seems as if certain actors in some preceding comedy of his were standing at the side-wings, and critically watching the progress of the after-piece. 1935 E. J. R. Isaacs Archit. for New Theatre 124 The rehearsal room, connected on one side with the work space in the side wings and on the other with the stairway to the administrative offices, [etc.]. 1983 B. G. Wilson Enterprises R. Hamilton 1 A splendid Georgian mansion..with..one-storey side wings and covered galleries. 2000 Observer (Nexis) 8 Oct. (Review section) 8 Painted side-wings and cloths rise and fall in the style of an eighteenth-century theatre, changing swiftly and simply. < as lemmas |
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