“Chippendale”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

Chippendale

释义

Chippendale, a.|ˈtʃɪpəndeɪl|
[f. name of a celebrated cabinet-maker and furniture designer of the 18th c.: see first quot.]
Applied to a particular style of light and elegant drawingroom furniture; also to a style of book-plates. Hence Chippendalism.
[1754T. Chippendale (title) Gentleman and Cabinet-Makers Director.]1876Mrs. Oliphant Odd Couple 167 (Hoppe) The chair upon which Mrs. T. sat was an elegant chippendale.1880Warren Book-plates iv. 28 The Chippendale style, which is the leading artistic fashion on English ex-libris after 1750.Ibid. xiv. 162 By 1780, Chippendalism had become on book-plates practically a thing of the past.1882M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal I. i. 14 Spindle-legged Chippendale tables.

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