English Dictionary

carton-pierre

/kɑː(ɹ)ˌtɒn piˈɛə(ɹ)/

noun

Papier-mâché that has been made to resemble wood, stone, or metal, used as decoration.

The theater set was decorated with intricate carton-pierre sculptures.

意味（1）

Papier-mâché that has been made to resemble wood, stone, or metal, used as decoration.

There were, indeed, high-backed Dutch chairs of the seventeenth century; there was a sculptured carved buffet of the sixteenth; there was a sideboard robbed out of the carved work of a church in the Low Countries, and a large brass cathedral lamp over the round oak table; there were old family portraits from Wardour Street and tapestry from France, bits of armour, double-handed swords and battle-axes made of carton-pierre, looking-glasses, statuettes of saints, and Dresden china—nothing, in a word, could be chaster.