Flemish scroll - "a double scroll on furniture formed of two C-scrolls in opposite directions joined by a right angle." Well that's pretty specific. It's basically a fancy S shaped leg and no two shakes about it.
What a
Saturday, 3 December 2011
Pretentious Word of The Week: Flemish Scroll (Day 106)
Today's randomly selected word from Webster's Third New International Dictionary and Seven Language Dictionary Unabridged: Volume 1, A-G is "flemish scroll". It is most often used to describe furniture.
Flemish scroll - "a double scroll on furniture formed of two C-scrolls in opposite directions joined by a right angle." Well that's pretty specific. It's basically a fancy S shaped leg and no two shakes about it.
What apretentious useful word. Using "flemish scroll" will be particularly impressive when you visit your hoity toity friends; 1) because they are the only people likely to have flemish scrolled furniture, and 2) because they probably won't know about it yet so you will sound smart. It should get you some good pretentious points.
Flemish scroll - "a double scroll on furniture formed of two C-scrolls in opposite directions joined by a right angle." Well that's pretty specific. It's basically a fancy S shaped leg and no two shakes about it.
What a
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