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单词 zophorus
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zophoruszoophorusn.

/ˈzəʊfərəs/ /zəʊˈɒfərəs/
Forms: Plural -i. Also 1700s anglicized zoophore.
Etymology: < Latin zōphorus, zōophorus (Vitruvius), < Greek ζῳϕόρος, ζῳοϕόρος adjective, bearing figures of animals, < ζῷον animal + -ϕόρος -bearing. Compare French zoophore (Rabelais).
Classical Architecture.
A continuous frieze bearing figures of men and animals carved in relief.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [noun] > entablature > frieze
frieze1563
zophorus1563
Panathenaic frieze1877
1563 J. Shute First Groundes Archit. sig. Biii Vpon their heddes, he laide Epistilia, and Coronas, setting betwixt them Zophorus.
1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 5th Bk. Wks. xliii. 199 The Architraves, Zoophores and Cornishes.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Zophorus or Zoophorus.
1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 586.
1905 Times 25 Apr. 5/2 The sculptures on the zophorus of the west front..should be taken down and stored in a museum.

Derivatives

zophoric adj. /zə(ʊ)ˈfɒrɪk/ (also zoophoric) bearing the figure of an animal.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [adjective] > of living thing > of animals
zophoric1728
zoomorphic1849
zoomorphosed1955
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Zoophoric Column, is a Statuary Column; or a Column that bears or supports the Figure of an Animal.
1752 Chambers's Cycl. (ed. 7) Zophoric.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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