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单词 glyptic
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Definition of glyptic in English:

glyptic

adjective ˈɡlɪptɪkˈɡlɪptɪk
  • Of or concerning carving or engraving.

    (与)雕刻(或雕版)(有关)的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • These statues are generally unlike images in two-dimensional narrative art, whether political or religious, and they are also unlike images of deities or super-natural beings known primarily from the glyptic arts.
    • We are not talking imperishable masterpieces of the glyptic art.
    • Pompadour was herself one of the few eighteenth-century practitioners of this glyptic art.
    • In Naples, Sir William Hamilton collected an extraordinary range of vases, bronze and marble statuary, glass, gems, jewellery, and glyptic art.

Origin

Early 19th century: from French glyptique or Greek gluptikos, from gluptēs 'carver', from gluphein 'carve'.

Rhymes

apocalyptic, cryptic, diptych, elliptic, styptic, triptych

Definition of glyptic in US English:

glyptic

adjectiveˈɡliptikˈɡlɪptɪk
  • Of or concerning carving or engraving.

    (与)雕刻(或雕版)(有关)的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • These statues are generally unlike images in two-dimensional narrative art, whether political or religious, and they are also unlike images of deities or super-natural beings known primarily from the glyptic arts.
    • In Naples, Sir William Hamilton collected an extraordinary range of vases, bronze and marble statuary, glass, gems, jewellery, and glyptic art.
    • We are not talking imperishable masterpieces of the glyptic art.
    • Pompadour was herself one of the few eighteenth-century practitioners of this glyptic art.

Origin

Early 19th century: from French glyptique or Greek gluptikos, from gluptēs ‘carver’, from gluphein ‘carve’.

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