| 单词 | openwork |
| 例句 | Then they pulled on their beautiful white stockings, that they had knit of fine cotton thread in lacy, openwork patterns, and they buttoned up their best shoes. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z But that modesty did not stop the designer from putting peephole squares of nylon as windows on the body or using openwork mesh at the sides of a black dress. Special Report: No Operatic Shout From the Heart 2010-09-24T18:06:00Z LeWitt, who had spent time in Japan, hired her as his studio assistant in charge of fabricating his four-square openwork grid sculptures. Maverick Minimalist, Gallerist, Global Citizen 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z And a seductively delicate openwork male corset made by the Dinka people of Sudan. New York Fashion Week: Male Models at the Line of Beauty ? NY Fashion Week 2011-09-16T23:20:18Z In each case, the crowning feature is an openwork ensemble, cut from a single block of wood, dominated by a large male figure. Bamigboye, Nigeria’s Tour-de-Force Sculptor, Claims His Fame in the World 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z As you move along the wall, the openwork texture very gradually becomes clear. What’s That on the Met’s Roof Garden? A Big, Beautiful Wall 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Moreover, the Dom looms over everything, the dark openwork of its Gothic spires glowering down on the city. T Magazine: Grand Teuton 2012-11-12T16:00:53Z Unfortunately the museum’s veil proved very difficult to build, and the exterior went from resembling a softly pliable openwork fabric to a squared-off box. Open doors 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Most are still made of metal, but of thin tubes tied together by wires, creating the netlike effect of openwork weaving, and the graphic eccentricity of star charts. Gego: Drawing in Space at the Guggenheim 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z A kind of openwork weaving made of knotted cords, or thread, the traditional Andean quipus found in burials may have been used as calculation instruments or memory recorders. The Precarious Art of Cecilia Vicuña 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z That included a dress of cashmere knitted together with soluble yarn that, when it dissolved in the wash, produced geometric openwork that looked absolutely original. Special Report: Diversity and Irony 2010-02-23T18:30:00Z Up close they’re like sheets of openwork lace or rippling water or a raked garden. Art Review: Yayoi Kusama at Whitney Museum of American Art 2012-07-12T21:34:04Z From macramé openwork cotton through precious Chantilly lace, the effect was of an open-air ease, not the fancy transparency of the boudoir. Fashion Review: Karl Lagerfeld Sends Out a Pearl of a Chanel Show 2011-10-04T17:38:09Z This show explores European lace which, like all lace, is a textile that involves no weaving and has openwork structure. Lace, That Most Coveted Textile 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z But her 1957 painted aluminum “12 Concentric Circles,” with its openwork curves spinning off into space, is a departure from the foursquare Constructivist model set by much geometric work of the period. Gego: Drawing in Space at the Guggenheim 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z More for style than sun protection, some models paraded with cannage hats, an openwork grid pattern favoured by Christian Dior that was also found on padded long coats in blue and khaki green. Dior sends models down bucolic garden runway for Men's Paris Fashion Week 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z Bush campaign consultant Lee Atwater, the openwork of the narrative easily accommodates that possibility. Review | The Gary Hart movie is here, revisiting a political scandal that now seems quaint 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Many of the bones end up as jewelry or staffs carved in the distinctive flowing, openwork style of Maori art, which often features fierce and beautiful stylized human figures, spirals, and fishhooks. This Man Has Helped Give 460 Dead Whales a Second Life—As Art 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z A double lozenge pattern dominates the openwork frieze, flanked by assorted Asian designs. To The Kraemer Gallery, Selling 18th-Century French Antiques Is More Than A Business, It's A Passion 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Each ear pendant top is designed as an openwork pavé-set diamond leaf, suspending a detachable cabochon ruby and brilliant-cut diamond cluster pendant. Jackie O's Van Cleef Rubies Fetch $302,000; $10M For Pink Diamond; World Record For Kashmir Sapphire 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z Golden floral motifs embellish the blue silk sleeves of one ensemble; in another, openwork flowers pierce the top of the iron helmet; and metal rosettes adorn the chain-mail thigh guards of a third. A Review of Two Exhibitions in Katonah on the Culture of Japan 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z Once part of the de Clercq collection of Roman and Byzantine jewelry, the ring is centered by a natural uncut diamond with a double pyramid set in a high openwork bezel. There's Still Time To View A Rare Exhibition of Historical Rings 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z It’s joined by a circular-cut diamond and cabochon emerald openwork clasp, mounted in platinum. 5.5-Carat Oval Pink Diamond Fetches $9.5 Million At Christie's 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Carved openwork, as of a shrine, battlement, or parapet. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z This principle gives greater scope for reproducing designs in openwork and colour than that of frame-work knitting. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z The openwork effects are produced either by the action of chemicals upon the foundation material, or by the use of the scissors. Lace, Its Origin and History 2012-02-26T03:00:15.360Z Three garlands of little figures, angels, kings, and saints, covered with openwork canopies, ran through three arches superposed over the three portals. The Cabin [La barraca] 2011-12-01T03:00:23.247Z I see mirrors, and candlesticks with openwork shades, silver over red, and sleek waiters bending down with bottles swathed in napkins. The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel 2011-11-17T03:00:37.293Z Each bath, cut from a single mass of white marble, was placed in its own vaulted chamber, and lighted through openwork of stars and roses. The Moors in Spain 2011-08-29T02:01:09.183Z The black satin slippers were pale with dust, and the openwork stockings, which boasted two great tears as well. Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel 2011-06-19T02:00:18.633Z The entire figure is then carried out, both solid filling and openwork, with fine stitching, the buttonhole stitch being most generally employed. Lace, Its Origin and History 2012-02-26T03:00:15.360Z The walls are mostly crowned with an openwork finish made by a simple arrangement of the bricks which is most effective. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II 2011-05-22T02:00:17.943Z These later shoes were decorated on the front by needlework or incised leather openwork underlaid with another colour. Dress design An Account of Costume for Artists & Dressmakers 2011-01-11T03:00:34.680Z Here a handsome openwork screen of stone shuts off the street, but not the view. Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z And openwork silk gloves suddenly came to light, having been discovered at the bottom of the trunk, where they had long lain forgotten. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z The Medici design is also characterized by plain, close-woven work, the close work alternating in equal amount with the openwork, the contrast between them heightening the effect. Lace, Its Origin and History 2012-02-26T03:00:15.360Z Towering above these rose a lovely church tower, splendid with Gothic windows, rich ornamentation and an openwork parapet, with a small round turret at one corner. Glories of Spain She felt with extraordinary clearness that he was gazing as if spell-bound at the soft and regular rise and fall of her skin towards the coarse black openwork of her bodice. A Bed of Roses The two top buttons of the raincoat were missing, displaying a wealth of blue ribbon and openwork that none had suspected in her. Patricia Brent, Spinster If candles are used they should be white with shades of white rose petals, or else silver openwork. Gala Day Luncheons A Little Book of Suggestions It is generally ornamented with circular figures and scroll-work, stitched in place by needle and thread, the intervening spaces or groundwork, being composed of a variety of fancy openwork. Lace, Its Origin and History 2012-02-26T03:00:15.360Z The massive square tower is along the south wall of the nave, with two floors topped by a balustrade with an openwork design. Romanesque Art in Southern Manche: Album The customers bought every day for twopence the right to stare through my openwork blouse, to touch my hand, to brush my knees with theirs. A Bed of Roses The lateness at which the ribbon and openwork began gave an interesting demonstration in feminine bone structure. Patricia Brent, Spinster Its tall openwork spire of iron tracery reaches towards the sky as though it would pierce the blue vault, forming a conspicuous object for the eye of the traveller who approaches the city by water. Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia Seaming.—A narrow openwork insertion, gimp or braiding, with parallel sides, used for joining two breadths of linen, instead of sewing them directly the one to the other. Lace, Its Origin and History 2012-02-26T03:00:15.360Z The tower is topped by a saddleback roof, the base of which is hidden north and south by a balustrade with an openwork design. Romanesque Art in Southern Manche: Album Her openwork stockings were drawn so tight that the skin there also gleamed white. A Bed of Roses "Gone," said Miss Gainor; "and just as well, too," for now Nanny was holding up a variety of lavender-scented delicacies of raiment, fine linens, and openwork silk stockings. The Red City A Novel of the Second Administration of President Washington In the tituli, the initial letter of the pope’s name is ornamented with openwork and the other letters are stilted. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" A coat of blue velvet with silver braid and buttons of filagree,—or wrought openwork silver buttons,—fitted as if moulded to his tall, erect young figure. Maid Sally His trousers were gray rayon, and his footgear was openwork sandals. The Golden Skull You get a black openwork blouse, mind you, with short sleeves. A Bed of Roses The gown had elbow sleeves, and she wore long, openwork thread glove mitts; for she was expecting Mistress Wynne and Josiah and was pleased in her own way to be at her best. The Red City A Novel of the Second Administration of President Washington The openwork spire of Freiburg is unequalled in grace by even that of Strasburg, whatever may be the actual value of its constructive details. The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine The inventor laughed amusedly again, glancing sidelong at his masterpiece, the little five-inch openwork steel box, having in it two tiny wheels with paper wound, tapelike, on one and a pencil between them. Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl The openwork floor allowed the breezes to circulate through the whole house. The Golden Skull There he stood still before a house, a narrow, simple house, like many others, with an openwork gable of curving lines, and became lost in contemplation of it. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 Cover the table with the prettiest, whitest damask, and over this lay lace-trimmed or openwork doilies, with a foundation of pink satin underneath. Breakfasts and Teas Novel Suggestions for Social Occasions She wore openwork stockings and high-heeled shoes, which had already suffered from walking along the dusty roads. The Moving Finger In the astrolabe, an openwork metal rete containing markings for the stars, etc., may be rotated by hand over a disc on which the lines of altitude and azimuth are inscribed. On the Origin of Clockwork, Perpetual Motion Devices, and the Compass His superiority was apparent in his gentlemanly baldness, his openwork socks, his well-turned references to current events, his kindly and indulgent attitude toward all things Samoan. Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas The cheap lace looked like marble openwork artistically carved with a fine chisel. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 And she had bought new stockings and new shoes; openwork stockings that showed her white feet through, and little, little shoes with immense steel buckles. The Combined Maze We lingered long in the cloisters, and climbed up the royal staircase, with its beautiful openwork vaulting to the north tower, from whose top we may see as far as Azay-le-Rideau on a clear day. In Château Land She told us that too many of the women wore white stockings and low shoes, read their own unpublished short stories, and regarded her wide-shouldered shirtwaist and melodramatic openwork hosiery with suspicion and alarm. In Our Town Then carry one cable up back of hand, with an openwork stripe each side, and knit plain across palm. Handbook of Wool Knitting and Crochet Dorothea opened an oblong package tied with green ribbon and found a set of blotters fastened to a dark green suède cover ornamented with an openwork design of four-leaf clovers, and a pen-wiper to match. Boys and Girls Bookshelf; a Practical Plan of Character Building, Volume I (of 17) Fun and Thought for Little Folk In the tops of six, she had knit in openwork her initials "M. E. B." When Grandmamma Was New The Story of a Virginia Childhood We put them in one of your best white dishes with the openwork edge. The Queen's Twin and Other Stories Originally a plain, openwork, net-like fabric of silk, mohair, cotton, or wool. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades "But what makes them call it a cage?" demanded Allie, eyeing with disfavor the pair of heavy platforms before her "I thought 'twould have openwork brass sides, like the elevators in Denver." In Blue Creek Cañon It was a stocking of fine linen thread, and along the instep it had a pretty openwork pattern that was like lace work. A Little Girl in Old Boston Miss Cynthia came and plaited her beautiful hair in a marvellous openwork sort of braid, and she had two white roses and a silver arrow in it. A Little Girl in Old New York It was one of those filigree balls of gold wrought into openwork, about the size of a walnut, that fine ladies used to wear swung from a chain or ribbon and call a pomander. The Thing from the Lake Fashioning machines are indispensable for knitting the Niantic and French foot, and also for the production of stripes, fancy openwork, and lace hosiery. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades Not a chapel was lighted; but as my eyes grew used to the gloom I could see faces on the other side of the tall, shut gates of openwork iron which we passed. The Car of Destiny It has an openwork silver handle and guard; the blade sheathed in a white scabbard, which is silver-mounted. The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette Her sleeves came a little below the elbow, and both wore black silk "openwork" mitts that came half-way up the arm. A Little Girl in Old New York When the basket was finished I wove a strong openwork cover for the top, leaving spaces just a little smaller than a peach, and fastened it securely to the basket. The Enchanted Island Its seat was covered with a leopard skin more eye-spotted than the body of Argus, and its foot-support was richly adorned with openwork carving. King Candaules She just holds her chin up and looks out at all that display of openwork dressmaking and cut glass exhibit without so much as battin' an eyelash. Shorty McCabe She was quite shaking with the excitement, and pulled at her openwork mitts with smiling expectancy. Patsy There was one of white and one of red, and they were put together in a rather long diamond shape with a row of openwork between every block. A Little Girl in Old New York But the canoes of the superior kind, which seem to be their men-of-war, are magnificently adorned with openwork, and covered with loose fringes of black feathers, which had a most elegant appearance. Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships He brought in an openwork, red osier basket, with a dozen and a half of eggs in it, laid on cotton batting, each egg as duly inscribed as the specimens of a mineralogist. Bertha and Her Baptism They seem to me like that openwork embroidery such as you see on Communion linen sometimes, in which the pattern is formed by withdrawing certain threads. By What Authority? On each étage were two white doors with openwork panels of iron over glass, which in most cases showed curtains on the other side. The Guests Of Hercules There are three arches, each ten feet high, of openwork, above which is a rich display of tabernacle work. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Exeter A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See We see them in the figures given by Charnay, Stevens, and other explorers; and what is worthy of special notice in this connection is, that they sometimes consist of openwork or trellis-like figures. Day Symbols of the Maya Year Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-1895, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 199-266. It is surmounted by a crown wrought in openwork and of a fine effect. Rouen, It's History and Monuments A Guide to Strangers Eb would shut off the engine, run up to a float, haul in a lot of clothesline, and fin'lly pull up an affair that's a cross between a small crockery crate and an openwork hen-coop. On With Torchy Since she looked impossible dressed as a grown lady in long skirts, she wore schoolgirl clothes and was tempted to furbish herself up like a tight-rope dancer with ribbons, openwork stockings, and white shoes. Atlantis From a drawer in the Chippendale chest which he had bought her, she brought forth a new nightdress, in-let with dainty openwork, which a few days before she had purchased. Sally Bishop A Romance "Them nightdresses," she sighed, "as is all fluffs an' frills an' openwork, may be all right when you're young, but for true comfort give me—flannel, every time." The Definite Object A Romance of New York De l'Isle, same year he made those great openwork gate' of Hotel St. Louis. The Flower of the Chapdelaines Woodwork devoid of paint or varnish, but carved in most elaborate and capricious openwork, the whiteness of the pinewood being kept up by constant scrubbings of soap and water. Madame Chrysantheme The walls of the room were of rose-chestnut, and over an openwork trellis, a luxuriant broadleaved ivy twined around the whole room. Memories A Story of German Love Most—and these were the blackest—wore long white robes and fine openwork skull caps. African Camp Fires The telegraph, which signalled to the openwork engine below, and a dining table as small as a chess-board, completely filled the "bridge." The Congo and Coasts of Africa To these beams are affixed the cross pieces that form the openwork sides. Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 Mother, with your love for old lace, you certainly would like the openwork effect of my skin. No. 13 Washington Square "Are you going to build those little funny openwork bridges over all the streams?" demanded Elinor. The Motor Maids in Fair Japan There was a "Gates Ajar" tippet for sale in the country groceries; I have fancied that it was a knit affair of as many colors as the jewels in the eternal portals, and extremely openwork. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896 To the right of the Amphitheatre rose a slender spiral staircase, like an openwork pillar of iron, with a tiny circular platform on the top, half surrounded by a light iron rail. In the Days of My Youth A man seated in a little openwork cradle shot by from some point still higher than the little narrow bridge, rushing down a cable as swiftly almost as if he were falling. The Sleeper Awakes A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes Just as quiet and cool, except that her hands in the openwork silk mits shook, as if her son was a duke. People of the Whirlpool Just by glancing at Two-eighteen's feet in their inadequate openwork silk and soft kid you knew that Two-eighteen's lips would be carmined. Cheerful—By Request "Places: pink first, 'cos she puts her 'ead a' one side; factory girl second, 'cos they likes her bein' dressed common; blue third, 'cos of her openwork stockin's; Albert's girl nowhere, 'cos she never is." Essays in Rebellion Mostly he was fleeing from formless terrors down an interminable passage in an airship—a passage paved at first with ravenous trap-doors, and then with openwork canvas of the most careless description. The War in the Air I've already had one of them before we left Vienna, 3 pairs of openwork stockings, Aunt Dora gave them to me, exquisitely fine, and my feet look so elegant in them. A Young Girl's Diary In five years she will have a white veil, and openwork stockings; she will look like a little woman. Les Misérables Open street cars, open skies, and openwork shirt waists had arrived. Star-Dust For the saint, we could use neither the close embroidery nor the lace openwork. The Dream The openwork of his sleeve-edge caught in an earring, and the last stage of His Majesty's little overture was a suppressed scream and summary dismissal to the nursery. Indian Tales Her right foot rested on the fender curb, thereby displaying a discreet interval of openwork silk stocking and a neatly cut steel-buckled shoe. The Far Horizon She held out her hand for his, and then sat down, displaying one of the fascinating slippers, and the openwork instep of her silk stocking, through the meshes of which the pearly skin gleamed evasively. The Puritans This is a mere fanciful adjunct, and may be used or not; but it has a very pretty effect over an openwork, white table-cloth, with the silver tray of the pergne resting upon it. Manners and Social Usages He wore a black alpaca coat, and waistcoat of farmer's satin; his hat was dark straw, like Deacon Latham's, but it was low-crowned, and a line of ornamental openwork ran round it near the top. The Lady of the Aroostook Take this," said Macana, handing her an openwork net or bag, "and hold it while I empty in some of the mussels. History of California Perhaps one high heel catching the sunlight, with a bird perched on the end of it; and the other—a stockinged foot, with blood … that's dried into the openwork stocking. Night Must Fall : a Play in Three Acts Stubbes tells us further of the rich decoration of ruffs with gold, silver, and silk lace, with needlework, with openwork, and with purled lace. Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) On a distant ridge inland, a tall openwork structure commandingly situated, with a statue of the Virgin standing on it. Following the Equator, Part 6 No longer in detached flakes, but as though an openwork white cloth were continuously unrolled before one's eyes. Stories by Foreign Authors: Italian A rowdyish-looking little tight-fitting cotton a servant would not wear, and openwork hose, and silver bangles! Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby She wore white lace underskirts, openwork silk stockings, and showy shoes. Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl Some openwork minarets dominate them—white spots above the prevailing dullness. Egypt (La Mort de Philae) His sword, designed as carefully as a medieval cross, has a blued blade showing through an openwork scabbard of purple leather and filagree. Caesar and Cleopatra "A man doesn't want to be feminine, I'm sure," struck in a pallid, overdressed youth, with openwork socks on his slim feet, and perfumed handkerchief. The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) There is an openwork balustrade which surrounds the platform of the bell tower. Notre-Dame De Paris Bees were murmurous among her flowers, pigeons murmurous among the trees; the sunlight warmed her knees, and her stretched-out feet through the openwork of her stockings. Beyond The result was an openwork pattern heavily encrusted with beautiful fine embroidery. The Land of Footprints |
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