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Watteau. World English Historical Dictionary

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Watteau. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Watteau The name of Antoine Watteau (1684–1721), a French painter, used attrib. in Watteau school, Watteau-like adj.; also in designations of articles of female costume similar to those represented in Watteau’s pictures, as Watteau hat; Watteau back, an arrangement of the back of a dress with a broad pleat falling from the neck to the extremity of the skirt without being gathered in at the waist; Watteau bodice, a bodice with square opening at the neck and short ruffled sleeves; Watteau mantle, a kind of cloak having a Watteau back and other details imitated from Watteau’s pictures; Watteau pleat (and ellipt. Watteau, watteau), the pleat of a Watteau back. Hence Watteauish a., resembling the style of Watteau.

1 1833.  Lamb, Elia, Ser. II. Barrenness Mod. Art. This is well, and Watteauish.

2 1849.  Thackeray, Sk. & Trav., Wks. 1900, VI. 668. Watteau-like groups in shot silks.

3 1864.  Miss A. B. Edwards, Barbara’s Hist., xxvi. The old designs, of a bastard Watteau school, had been lately removed.

4 1887.  Brit. Textile Warehouseman, 15 Sept., 70/1. The back fits the figure, but has a full Watteau pleat down the centre, fastened in at the waist, and then flowing in easy folds to the hem.

5 1891.  Daily News, 12 Dec., 3/1. From the shoulders at the back hung a long Watteau of the richest cut jet.

6 1899.  Westm. Gaz., 22 June, 3/2. Next week I shall give drawings of an Empire and a Watteau hat. Ibid., 23 Nov., 3/1. A heliotrope cashmere tea-gown, made with a Watteau back and a long straight front of silk.

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