单词 | surbase |
释义 | surbasen. 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. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > moulding > other mouldings bowtell1376 crownwork1594 protypum1601 chaplet1623 bandeleta1645 bedding-moulding1664 quadra1664 surbase1678 platband1696 bed-moulding1703 eyebrow1703 square1703 gorge1706 nerve1728 heel1734 quirk-moulding1776 star1781 bead1799 rope moulding1813 zigzag1814 chevron-moulding1815 nebule1823 billet1835 dancette1838 pellet moulding1838 vignette moulding1842 bird's beak moulding1845 beak-head ornament1848 beak-head1849 billet moulding1851 beading1858 bead-work1881 Venetian dentil1892 chevron-work- 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. b. A cornice or series of mouldings above the dado of a pedestal, podium, etc. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [noun] > pedestal > surbase surbase1815 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1678 |
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