单词 | coroplast |
释义 | coroplast Antiq.|ˈkɔərəplæst| Also koroplast. [ad. Gr. κοροπλάστης, f. κόρη girl, doll: see -plast. Cf. F. coroplaste.] One who makes terracotta figures.
1885Nation (N.Y.) 1 Oct. 286/3 The Myrinæan coroplasts, or manufacturers of terra-cottas, were certainly influenced by the models of their brethren in Tanagra. [1886J. H. Wright tr. Collignon's Gk. Archæol. 239 The art of the coroplastes, or modeller of figurines.] 1888Amer. Jrnl. Archæol. IV. 417 The independence and capriciousness which characterize the work of Greek koroplasts. 1936Antiquity X. 249 The coroplasts who made these figures can be identified by their signatures. 1950H. L. Lorimer Homer & Monuments v. 163 Greek soldiers of fortune would now and again drift to Cyprus and furnish a subject for local koroplasts. 1952Antiquity XXVI. 104 The Tarsus koroplasts were more closely allied..with those of Alexandria than with the more sophisticated craftsmen of Myrina and Tanagra. |

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