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词汇 staffage
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Definition of staffage in English:

staffage

noun stəˈfɑːʒˈstafij
mass noun
  • Accessory items in a painting, especially figures or animals in a landscape picture.

    画中的陪衬物(尤指风景画中的人物或动物)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Except for some staffage across the valley floor, the remainder of the vista corresponds to the etching with excruciating fidelity, with one notable exception.
    • Here, museum officials watch expectantly as a cow examines a recently acquired landscape painting with bovine staffage.
    • Instead, he resorted to artistic licence as regards scale, spatial relationships and the introduction of staffage.
    • The original canvas sets Burns much more in the centre of things and reduces Scott, if he's really there at all, to staffage, one of the seated figures who accentuate the poet's height and presence by their passivity.
    • Moreover, if the staffage reminds us of the kinds of figures found in his earlier work, they do also represent the people who worked on the Thames barges.

Origin

Late 19th century: from German, from staffieren 'decorate', perhaps from Old French estoffer, from estoffe 'stuff'.

Definition of staffage in US English:

staffage

nounˈstafij
  • Accessory items in a painting, especially figures or animals in a landscape picture.

    画中的陪衬物(尤指风景画中的人物或动物)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The original canvas sets Burns much more in the centre of things and reduces Scott, if he's really there at all, to staffage, one of the seated figures who accentuate the poet's height and presence by their passivity.
    • Except for some staffage across the valley floor, the remainder of the vista corresponds to the etching with excruciating fidelity, with one notable exception.
    • Instead, he resorted to artistic licence as regards scale, spatial relationships and the introduction of staffage.
    • Moreover, if the staffage reminds us of the kinds of figures found in his earlier work, they do also represent the people who worked on the Thames barges.
    • Here, museum officials watch expectantly as a cow examines a recently acquired landscape painting with bovine staffage.

Origin

Late 19th century: from German, from staffieren ‘decorate’, perhaps from Old French estoffer, from estoffe ‘stuff’.

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