barley-sugar

See also: barley sugar

English

Barley-sugar pillars ("twisted helically")

Noun

barley-sugar (countable and uncountable, plural barley-sugars)

attributive formal of barley sugar

Adjective

barley-sugar (comparative more barley-sugar, superlative most barley-sugar)

very sweet; harmless.
- c. 1800, Anne Isabella Byron, quoted in Malcolm Elwin, Lord Byron's wife
  I shall write to you tomorrow on a subject which I have not now time to discuss. This I declare now because I like to excite your curiosity, and to delay gratifying it. I am a sweet chicken ! ! ! You ought to think me the most barley-sugar daughter in the creation!
- 1824, John Scott, John Taylor, The London Magazine, page 126
  In the apartment of the Abate a few pictures remain, but none of first order : one or two Carlo Dolces served to strengthen our opinion of his being one of the most barley-sugar painters of the Italian schools.
- 1851, The New monthly belle assemblée, page 292
  Well, the little dog barked on furiously, that is for a barley-sugar dog; and, after rolling themselves in the grass to get rid of the load of jam and cream on their clothes, they managed to get up and run on.
twisted helically.
- 1935, Anthony Bertram, The House: A Machine for Living In; a Summary of the Art and Science of Homemaking Considered Functionally
  Chair-backs were very straight and no time was wasted on carving. This severe discipline prepared English craftsmen for their great period. After a slight relapse under Charles II into rather frivolous forms — very barley-sugar, but discreet […]
- 1963, Radio Astronomy
  Suppose that, initially, the barley-sugar aerials are twisted in such a sense that the polar diagram of each has its maximum north of the zenith.
- 1988, Robert Milburn, Early Christian Art and Architecture, Univ of California Press →ISBN, page 95
  The barley-sugar columns, carved in spiral channels with alternating bands of vine ornament, exist to this day though moved from their original site.
- 2008, John Mortimer, Summer's Lease, Penguin UK →ISBN
  So they left the remains of Fosdyke and walked across the road and through the old church, restored in the eighteenth century, which had barley-sugar pillars and theatrical red curtains backlit by the sun.
- 2012, Jane Beck, For Better For Worse, Troubador Publishing Ltd →ISBN
  Kate's living room was simply furnished with a large damask-covered sofa that had seen better days, a folding table with barley sugar legs and a couple of upright chairs.

Synonyms

(twisted helically): Solomonic

单词	barley-sugar
释义	barley-sugar See also: barley sugar English Barley-sugar pillars ("twisted helically") Noun barley-sugar (countable and uncountable, plural barley-sugars) attributive formal of barley sugar Adjective barley-sugar (comparative more barley-sugar, superlative most barley-sugar) very sweet; harmless. c. 1800, Anne Isabella Byron, quoted in Malcolm Elwin, Lord Byron's wife I shall write to you tomorrow on a subject which I have not now time to discuss. This I declare now because I like to excite your curiosity, and to delay gratifying it. I am a sweet chicken ! ! ! You ought to think me the most barley-sugar daughter in the creation! 1824, John Scott, John Taylor, The London Magazine, page 126 In the apartment of the Abate a few pictures remain, but none of first order : one or two Carlo Dolces served to strengthen our opinion of his being one of the most barley-sugar painters of the Italian schools. 1851, The New monthly belle assemblée, page 292 Well, the little dog barked on furiously, that is for a barley-sugar dog; and, after rolling themselves in the grass to get rid of the load of jam and cream on their clothes, they managed to get up and run on. twisted helically. 1935, Anthony Bertram, The House: A Machine for Living In; a Summary of the Art and Science of Homemaking Considered Functionally Chair-backs were very straight and no time was wasted on carving. This severe discipline prepared English craftsmen for their great period. After a slight relapse under Charles II into rather frivolous forms — very barley-sugar, but discreet […] 1963, Radio Astronomy Suppose that, initially, the barley-sugar aerials are twisted in such a sense that the polar diagram of each has its maximum north of the zenith. 1988, Robert Milburn, Early Christian Art and Architecture, Univ of California Press →ISBN, page 95 The barley-sugar columns, carved in spiral channels with alternating bands of vine ornament, exist to this day though moved from their original site. 2008, John Mortimer, Summer's Lease, Penguin UK →ISBN So they left the remains of Fosdyke and walked across the road and through the old church, restored in the eighteenth century, which had barley-sugar pillars and theatrical red curtains backlit by the sun. 2012, Jane Beck, For Better For Worse, Troubador Publishing Ltd →ISBN Kate's living room was simply furnished with a large damask-covered sofa that had seen better days, a folding table with barley sugar legs and a couple of upright chairs. Synonyms (twisted helically): Solomonic
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