单词 | scrolloping |
释义 | scrolloping, ppl. a.|ˈskrɒləpɪŋ| [Fanciful portmanteau formation by Virginia Woolf, prob. combining scroll n., lollop v., etc.] Characterized by or possessing heavy, florid, ornament. Also transf. and as pres. pple., proceeding in involutions, rambling.
1923V. Woolf Diary 7 Feb. (1978) I. 232 Like Vita she detests the scrolloping honours of the great, calls her family dull and stupid. 1927― New Dress in Forum (N.Y.) May 706 Just for a second.., there looked at her, framed in the scrolloping mahogany, a gray-white..charming girl. Ibid. 707 The scrolloping looking-glass. 1928― Orlando ii. 96 He tore, in one rending, the scrolloping emblazoned scroll. Ibid. v. 208 Cucumbers ‘came scrolloping across the grass to his feet’. 1931― Waves 308 Then I scoff at the floridity and absurdity of some scrolloping tomb. |

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