tympan

1 A piece of rubber, felt, or woolen cloth, used in the tympan to make it soft and elastic.

2 Dainty, delicate, its rose-colored columns of granite appeared too thin for tangible weight; the tympan's sculptured designs, fanciful as the carvings in some palace of a poet's dreams.

3 This façade is of the fifteenth century and on the tympan of the dormer windows one may still see the monogram of its builder, Cottereau.

4 In the arches of these three porticos are figures of a smaller size, which like the bas-reliefs of the tympans, exhibit either scenes taken from Scripture, or saints and angels.

5 In the lower half of the tympan Satan is enthroned, his feet resting upon a writhing and hideously grimacing figure, supposed to be that of Judas.

6 It consisted of a table, along which the forme of type, furnished with a tympan and frisket, was pushed by hand.

7 Your breath falls around me like dew—your pulse lulls the tympans of my         ears, I feel immerged from head to foot, Delicious—enough.

8 In the tympan on the right hand door, Jesus is seen seated on a rain-bow, and over him is the Resurrection of the dead and the Judgment-day.

9 The ornament is nearly confined to the tympan over the portal, the capitals of columns, and to the choir with its seven absidal chapels.

10 The tympan of the duplicating machine is sometimes made uneven so that the impression of a typewriter is still further carried out.

11 These tympans are interchangeable at will, and the arm which carries them is also provided with a turning tool for smoothing the wax cylinder prior to its receiving the print.

12 An eighteenth-century doorway had been added to it, and the tympan of the pediment was quite filled up with hanging plants.

13 O how your fingers drowse me, Your breath falls around me like dew, your pulse lulls the tympans of my ears, I feel immerged from head to foot, Delicious, enough.

14 The interest of the exterior is centred upon the bas-relief representing the Last Judgment, which fills the entire tympan of the arch covering the two main doorways.

15 Over the cylinder is supported a diaphragm or tympan T, provided with a conical mouthpiece M for speaking into.

16 The portal is very wide and deeply recessed, and the tympan is crowded with bas-reliefs, the sculpture of which, rude yet expressive, is of a striking originality.

17 The composition, which fills the tympan of the scarcely-pointed arch, represents Christ surrounded by the twelve Apostles.

18 The tympan employed for receiving is made of gold-beater's skin, having a stud at its centre and a springy stylus of steel wire.

1 鼓

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2 鼓膜

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3 衬垫

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