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单词 surbase
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surbasen.

/ˈsəːbeɪs/
Forms: Also 1700s sirbace.
Etymology: < sur- prefix + base n.1
Architecture.
a. A border or moulding immediately above the base or lower panelling of a wainscoted room; also, = chair-rail n. at chair n.1 Compounds 2.
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1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. vi. 106 The Middle Rail hath commonly two bredths of the Margent of the Stile, viz. one breadth above the Sur-base, and the other below the Sur-base.
1744 J. Langhorne Country Justice i, in Poems (1790) 282 Where, round the hall, the oak's high surbase rears The field-day triumphs of two hundred years.
1761 Philos. Trans. 1760 (Royal Soc.) 51 798 From the top of the surbase within to the pavement of the cell is 7 feet.
1791 Oxf. Archd. Papers (Bodl. Libr.) MS. Oxon. b. 26, lf. 177 b Neat Chimney piece..suitable Hearthstone..with a Sirbace and Skirting.
1836 M. Scott Cruise of Midge xviii. 307 The whole of the surbazes and wooden work about the windows and doors were of well-polished and solid mahogany.
1871 M. E. Braddon Lovels xxxii As her severe eyes surveyed wall and ceiling, floor and surbase.
1875 Encycl. Brit. II. 474/1 Surbase.., an upper base is the term applied to what, in the fittings of a room, is familiarly called the chair-rail.
1880 Cassell's Family Mag. VI. 112 The height of the surbase or chair-rail.
attributive.1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 605 Surbase-moulding.
b. A cornice or series of mouldings above the dado of a pedestal, podium, etc.
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1815 T. Rickman in J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 171 Each upper portion, as surbase of pedestal, capital of column, cornice of entablature, divides into three parts.
1837 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 352/2 The cornice or surbase of the pedestal on which the statue of the Duke is placed.
1887 Times (Weekly ed.) 9 Dec. 15/1 The temple rests on a stylobate, having a finely moulded base and surbase.
attributive.1845 J. H. Parker Gloss. Terms Archit. (ed. 4) I. 275 Pedestal, the cornice, or surbase mouldings, at the top [of a pedestal].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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