Meaning of sharawadgi | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A style of landscape gardening or architecture in which rigid lines and symmetry are avoided in favour of an organic appearance.
   historical, obsolete, uncountable
2. Alternative letter-case form of sharawadgi.
   alt-of, uncountable

Examples

“Among us, the Beauty of Building and Planting is placed chiefly in ſome certain Proportions, Symmetries, or Uniformities; our Walks and our Trees ranged ſo, as to anſwer one another, and at exact Distances. The Chineſes ſcorn this way of Planting, […] their greateſt Reach⟳ of Imagination, is employed in contriving Figures, where the Beauty ſhall be great, and ſtrike the Eye, but without any Order⟳ or Diſpoſition of Parts, that ſhall be commonly or eaſily obſerv'd. And though we have⟳ hardly any Notion of this ſort of Beauty, yet they have⟳ a particular Word to expreſs it; and where they find⟳ it hit their Eye at firſt Sight, they ſay the Sharawadgi is fine or is admirable, or any ſuch Expreſſion of Eſteem.”

“Long before the close⟳ of the seventeenth century, there was a fascination with "Sharawadgi" (a word supposedly derived from Chinese), a type⟳ of design⟳ that accented the wild, the surprising, the irregular.”

“Temple's word for this style is "sharawadgi"; it is the deliberate arrangement of form⟳ to create⟳ particular vistas, which also imply particular sites or points of view⟳ from which those vistas perfect themselves. But as [Horace] Walpole adapts Temple's reflections, first in his own⟳ treatise on gardening, and later in his thoughts on architecture, sharawadgi is the organization of a series of such views.”

“The kind of Scots we used was messy; it was going into all sorts of odd lexical corners and stirring these up with four-letter words. It was a kind of "sharawaggi", an absolute mixture. This didn't go down well.”

“There are no further ebullient accounts in [Horace] Walpole's letters of Chinese bridges and temples and the glories of sharawadgi, and he never moved forward⟳ with a proposed Chinese house at Strawberry Hill for which [Richard] Bentley had provided a plan⟳.”

“For many, oriental asymmetry was a liberation, and sharawaggi became a cult term of praise⟳ when talking about everything from ceramics to buildings.”

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