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WISTERIA [2 records]

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Record 1 2016-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
Universal entry(ies)
Wisteria sinensis
Latin
DEF

A wistaria(Wisteria chinensis) with nearly glabrous mature leaves, blue-violet flowers, and velvety pubescent pods.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Wisteria sinensis
Latin
CONT

Glycine : Arbuste grimpant lianoïde, pouvant atteindre 20 m de long. (Les feuilles sont caduques, composées imparipennées, les fleurs en grappes pendantes, bleu-violet, blanches ou rose-pâle. Les deux espèces les plus fréquemment cultivées dans les jardins sont la glycine de Chine et la glycine du Japon. Famille des papilionacées.)

Spanish

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Record 2 2002-10-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Architectural Styles
DEF

An elaborately ornamental architectural style used in homes build in the middle 19th century in the Ohio and Mississippi river valleys.

OBS

So called for its use in homes of retired steamboat captains in imitation of the style of river steamboats.

CONT

The Wisteria House circa 1900. Originally this house had a wraparound porch with rounded edges and was in the Steamboat Gothic style, so called because the house looked rather like a steamboat on the Mississippi River

OBS

steamboat gothic: usually capital G.

Key term(s)
  • steam boat gothic style
  • steam-boat gothic
  • steam-boat gothic style

French

Domaine(s)
  • Styles en architecture
OBS

Traduction libre pour un style architectural en vogue au milieu du 19e siècle aux États-Unis notamment dans la région de la rivière Ohio et du fleuve Mississippi; les constructions rappelaient la forme des célèbres navires à vapeur circulant sur ces cours d'eau.

Spanish

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