| 单词 |
parsemé |
| 释义 |
‖ parsemé, a.|pɑːrsəmeɪ|
[Fr., pa. pple. of parsemer to sprinkle, strew f. L. per- through + sēmināre to sow.]
Sprinkled or strewn (with); used esp. in embroidery with reference to the decoration of fabrics and costumes.
1814M. Birkbeck Notes Journey through France App. 14 The numerous longitudinal ridges..with which this charming country is, ‘parsemé’, appear to be the venerable remains of the ancient surface. 1832F. Trollope Dom. Manners Amer. I. vi. 74 She was preparing to set to work in a yellow dress parsemé with red roses... I thought it was a pity to spoil so fine a gown. 1883H. C. Dent Jrnl. 9 June in Year in Brazil (1886) i. 4 The country on the north bank has a low coastline, parsemé with red-roofed white houses. 1890O. Wilde Pict. Dorian Gray ix, in Lippincott's Monthly Mag. July 71 A skull-cap parsemé with pearls. 1905Athenæum 17 June 760 The rise of a new conception of design, with figures and ornaments parsemé on a velvet ground,..in the fifteenth century. |
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