单词 | table screen |
释义 | > as lemmastable screen table screen n. (a) a small, usually porcelain tile, traditionally used in China, designed to be placed vertically on a table to protect other items from sunlight [rendering Chinese chā píng, lit. ‘insert screen’] ; †(b) Australian a trestle table in a woolshed (obsolete rare). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > [noun] > shearing-shed > table rolling table1749 table screen1800 table1829 wool table1865 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > screen > [noun] > other types of speer1379 traverse1400 transom-lattice1689 blind1730 window blind1730 spire1768 Venetian window-blind1769 window shade1789 tatty1792 tat1810 Japanese screen1872 fusuma1880 curtain1895 mosquito door1929 tuku-tuku1936 fly-wire door1952 table screen1971 1800 Times 10 Apr. 1/1 (advt.) Ornamental temples, epergnes, flower stands, lanterns, fans, window, fire, hand, book and table screens. 1848 H. R. Forster Stowe Catal. No. 1022 A Chinese table-screen, the panel painted with a ceremony—in rosewood frame. 1880 A. C. Grant Bush-life in Queensland vii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 71/2 The fleece, gathered carefully with both hands is conveyed to a long table-screen. 1971 Country Life 10 June 1425/3 Several table screens are on view. A rare example..is made of turquoise matrix carved with an eastern scene. 2002 H. Tan in R. Kerr & J. Ayres Blanc de Chine Catal. No. 16 The two episodes were combined, as in a relief depiction on a Dehua porcelain table screen in Hong Kong. < as lemmas |
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