1610s, "Moorish or Arabic ornamental design," from French arabesque (16c.), from Italian arabesco, from Arabo "Arab," with reference to Moorish architecture. As a ballet pose, first attested 1830. Musical sense, in reference to an ornamented theme, is from 1864, originally the title given by Robert Schumann to one of his piano pieces.
雙語例句
1. The ballerina remained suspended in a faultless arabesque.
這位芭蕾舞女演員一直保持著完美的阿拉貝斯克舞姿不動。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Its predominant vein was, in Poe's own phrase, " the grotesque and arabesque. "
它的最主要的特點, 用坡自己的話說, 就是 “ 怪誕和奇異. ”
來自辭典例句
3. I like carpets with arabesque patterns.
我喜歡帶有阿拉伯式花飾的地毯.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
4. Its forged and hammered metal had been wrought into elegant , almost arabesque, curves.