- french scroll
- noun
Usage: usually capitalized F: a ball-shaped furniture scroll with spirals nearly horizontal in position — see foot illustration
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
french scroll
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scroll´-like´ — scroll «skrohl», noun, verb. –n. 1. a) a roll of parchment, paper or other material, especially one with writing on it: »He slowly unrolled the scroll as he read from it. b) a list, as of names or events; roll; schedule: »Figurative. to be… … Useful english dictionary
French curve — French′ (or french′) curve′ n. sur a flat drafting instrument, the edges of which are cut into several scroll like curves enabling lines of varying curvature to be drawn • Etymology: 1880–85 … From formal English to slang
scroll — I. noun Etymology: Middle English scrowle, blend of rolle roll and scrowe scrap, scroll (from Anglo French escrowe, of Germanic origin; akin to Middle Dutch schrode piece cut off, Old High German scrōt) more at shred Date: 15th century 1. a. a… … New Collegiate Dictionary
scroll — scroll1 [skrəul US skroul] n [Date: 1400 1500; Origin: scrow scroll (13 17 centuries), from Old French escroue piece of paper, scroll ; influenced by roll] 1.) a long piece of paper that can be rolled up, and is used as an official document 2.) a … Dictionary of contemporary English
french curve — noun Usage: often capitalized F : a curved piece of flat material (as wood, ebonite, celluloid) often in the form of a scroll and used as an aid in drawing noncircular curves * * * a flat drafting instrument, usually consisting of a sheet of… … Useful english dictionary
scroll — /skroʊl / (say skrohl) noun 1. a roll of parchment or paper, especially one with writing on it. 2. such a roll with each end attached to a piece of wood or the like to allow for rolling the paper forwards and backwards to view the writing or… …
french foot — noun Usage: usually capitalized 1st F 1. : a hosiery foot used in full fashioned stockings in which the back seam of the leg is continued through the middle of the sole compare english foot 2. : french bracket foot * * * Furniture. 1. Also called … Useful english dictionary
scroll — [15] Scroll has no family connection with roll, although roll is largely responsible for its present day form. Etymologically it is actually the same word as shred. Both go back to a prehistoric Germanic *skrautha ‘something cut’. This evolved in … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
scroll — [15] Scroll has no family connection with roll, although roll is largely responsible for its present day form. Etymologically it is actually the same word as shred. Both go back to a prehistoric Germanic *skrautha ‘something cut’. This evolved in … Word origins
French foot — Furniture. 1. Also called knurl toe, scroll foot, whorl foot. a foot of the mid 18th century having the form of a scroll, continuing the leg downward and outward, supported by a shoe. 2. a bracket foot comprising a downward and outward… … Universalium
