Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of punching holes in or perforating anything for ornament: same as
pinking . - noun Any design or ornamental effect produced by holes.
- noun The operation of transferring the outline of a design from one surface to another, as from a cartoon to a wall or from a sheet of paper to a canvas or a piece of muslin, by perforating the surface on which the drawing has been made with small holes along the outlines, then laying it on the surface intended to receive the transfer and dusting over it with a pounce-bag, thus leaving a dotted repetition of the design. This may be fixed with a soft lead-pencil or a reed pen.
- noun A pattern so produced.
- noun Same as
pounce , 3.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The art or practice of transferring a design by means of pounce.
- noun obsolete Decorative perforation of cloth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
pounce . - noun The art or practice of transferring a design by means of
pounce . - noun
Decorative perforation ofcloth .
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Examples
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Conan crept to within pouncing distance, and he was about to grab the creature and snap its neck, when it shrieked, and dropped the pearl.
Archive 2009-12-01 Reis O'Brien 2009
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When the data is a little off, you get flat-earthers like Palin pouncing on it.
Think Progress » Global warming denier Sarah Palin to appear at ‘Oil Palace’ in Texas. 2010
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Conan crept to within pouncing distance, and he was about to grab the creature and snap its neck, when it shrieked, and dropped the pearl.
Conan Fan Fiction! Cromsblood 2009
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Cabrera, in a phone interview: "You can't walk through the hallway without people pouncing, which is what they should do." list of Council members.
City Limits - News 2010
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"pouncing" -- that is to say, the design is pricked upon a paper, which, being pressed upon the canvas, and smeared or dabbed with charcoal, leaves a faint trace of the desired outline.
A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Dutton Cook 1856
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The late Irene Selznick, who was a friend of his for more than 60 years, compared him to a set of tightly coiled springs, that he just had this kind of pouncing energy all the time.
In All His Glory 1990
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The tools for "pouncing" are to be bought at most saddlers 'or ironmongers'.
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Applied to the wall in ink blue and rust red pigments, using the traditional fresco cartoon transfer technique known as "pouncing," the vast tracery has a map-like connectedness up close.
SFGate: Top News Stories Chron kennethbaker@sfchronicle.com (Kenneth Baker 2011
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Applied to the wall in ink blue and rust red pigments, using the traditional fresco cartoon transfer technique known as "pouncing," the vast tracery has a map-like connectedness up close.
SFGate: Top News Stories Chron kennethbaker@sfchronicle.com (Kenneth Baker 2011
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Applied to the wall in ink blue and rust red pigments, using the traditional fresco cartoon transfer technique known as "pouncing," the vast tracery has a map-like connectedness up close.
SFGate: Top News Stories Chron kennethbaker@sfchronicle.com (Kenneth Baker 2011
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