2. Verb. (third-person singular of splat) ¹
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Definition of Splats
1. splat [v] - See also: splat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Splats
Literary usage of Splats
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... hoop-skirts) in coml reduction of the breadth in the often erroneously claimed
that originated the pierced splats, vi. such an appearance* of lightness, ..."
2. Colonial Furniture in America by Luke Vincent Lockwood (1913)
"A single stile separates the two splats, which are elaborately pierced in a rather
late Chippendale design. There are but two front legs, which are cabriole ..."
3. Chats on Cottage and Farmhouse Furniture by Arthur Hayden, Hugh Phillips (1912)
"Their upright posts forming the open back can be treated with vertical splats
divided by horizontal divisions, or they can, as in the ladder form, ..."
4. The Lure of the Antique by Walter Alden Dyer (1910)
"splats of plain chairs .have been elaborated, making them very ornate. The carving
on the splats, however, makes them thinner than those on old carved ..."
5. The Hudson-Fulton Celebration: Catalogue of an Exhibition Held in the by Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner, Henry Watson Kent, Florence Nightingale Levy (1909)
"Double curved back; two splats with oval openings and elaborate carvings in
relief; each opening forms center of a cartouche with two birds whose beaks ..."
6. English Furniture Designers of the Eighteenth Century by Constance Simon (1905)
"Three-cornered chairs, with two splats and a semicircular top rail, corresponded
in their ... It has an extension-top or headrest, shaped splats, ..."
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