| 单词 |
picotee |
| 释义 |
picotee, n. (a.)|pɪkəˈtiː|
Also 8 picketee, -ttee, -tty, 9 piquoté, piccotee.
[a. F. picoté, -ée, pa. pple. of picoter to prick often, mark with pricks or points, f. picot: see picot n.]
A. n. A florists' variety of the carnation (Dianthus Caryophyllus), the flowers of which have a light ground, the petals being marked or edged with a darker colour.
The early variety had a white ground marked with specks of colour.
1727Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Carnation, Each of those Tribes are very numerous, but chiefly the Picketees, of which, he says, he had seen above an hundred different Sorts in one Garden. 1808Sir J. E. Smith in Mem. (1832) I. 565 Your Piquoté (I never knew before how to spell that word, neither do I know its etymology now) pink is a curious plant. 1843Tait's Mag. X. 617 By what process gooseberries may be made gigantic, and piccotees enriched with piedness. 1887G. Nicholson's Dict. Gardening III. 123 Picotees are only distinguished from Carnations by the markings of their flowers. The petals of..the Picotee have a ground colour, and are edged with a second colour.
B. adj. Applied to colours resembling those of the flowers or leaves of the picotee.
1899Daily News 7 Oct. 8/6 Fine late tulips. Picotee, white, with picotee red edge. c1900Needlecraft Ser. i. No. 34. 9/2 The shading and grass upon the bank,..work in dark picotee greens. |
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