Töpferscheibe
potter's wheel
noun TUH-pfer-shy-be Rare
Origin: from Töpfer (potter) and Scheibe (disc)
Usage Note
Töpferscheibe is the rotating disc on which a potter throws clay. The verb töpfern means to make pottery; the plural is Töpferscheiben.
Examples
"Auf der Töpferscheibe zog sie die Wände der Vase hoch."
Natural Translation
On the potter's wheel she pulled up the walls of the vase.
Literal Translation
On the potter's-wheel pulled she the walls of-the vase up.
Related Words
- Abguss cast, casting (plaster or metal replica of a sculpture)
- Abstraktion abstraction (non-representational art)
- Acrylfarbe acrylic paint
- Akanthus acanthus (decorative leaf motif)
- Akt nude
- Aktmalerei nude painting; figure painting
- Aktmodell life model; nude model (for drawing or painting)
- Aktzeichnung life drawing, figure drawing (of the nude)
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