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单词 mahlstick
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Definition of mahlstick in English:

mahlstick

(also maulstick)
noun ˈmɔːlstɪkˈmɔlˌstɪk
  • A light stick with a padded leather ball at one end, held against work by a painter or signwriter to support and steady the brush hand.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Dutch was widely known in Europe in the 17c, when the first English - Dutch dictionaries appeared and such Dutch-derived artistic terms as easel, etch, landscape, maulstick, sketch were adopted into English.
    • Many artists also used a mahlstick, a long cane with a ball of leather at one end, on which to rest the hand while painting, avoiding the danger of marking slow-drying oil paint.
    • But the mahlstick is also evidence of the production of the painting as a physical object.
    • Painted about 1832, it casts Sumner in the romantic pose of an aspiring artist, palette and maulstick at hand, his distant gaze both engaging and poetic as he looks toward unseen worlds.
    • He made his own mahlsticks, and now I do the same with a thin dowel, a scrap of smooth leather and some string and stuffing.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from Dutch maalstok, from malen 'to paint' + stok 'stick'.

 
 

Definition of mahlstick in US English:

mahlstick

(also maulstick)
nounˈmɔlˌstɪkˈmôlˌstik
  • A light stick with a padded leather ball at one end, held against work by a painter or signwriter to support and steady the brush hand.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • But the mahlstick is also evidence of the production of the painting as a physical object.
    • Dutch was widely known in Europe in the 17c, when the first English - Dutch dictionaries appeared and such Dutch-derived artistic terms as easel, etch, landscape, maulstick, sketch were adopted into English.
    • Many artists also used a mahlstick, a long cane with a ball of leather at one end, on which to rest the hand while painting, avoiding the danger of marking slow-drying oil paint.
    • Painted about 1832, it casts Sumner in the romantic pose of an aspiring artist, palette and maulstick at hand, his distant gaze both engaging and poetic as he looks toward unseen worlds.
    • He made his own mahlsticks, and now I do the same with a thin dowel, a scrap of smooth leather and some string and stuffing.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from Dutch maalstok, from malen ‘to paint’ + stok ‘stick’.

 
 
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