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Soheil1 Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

(chess) stylized

Hi.
What does 'stylized' mean in:
In France, the stylized elephant of the Indian chess set was thought to look like a court jester's cap

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Broadly speaking, it didn't look like a real elephant. com/dictionary/stylize

— Clive

  • Broadly speaking, it didn't look like a real elephant.
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Broadly speaking, it didn't look like a real elephant.

http://www.learnersdictionary.com/definition/stylized

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So it mean artificial?
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And why is it called stylized?
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No.
Broadly speaking, an artificial thing is intended to look like a natural thing.

http://www.learnersdictionary.com/definition/artificial

http://
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yes, TFD and CALD, plus my bilingual dictionary.

But I was in doubt with my bilingual dictionary.
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I don't know what the abbreviations TFD and CALD mean.

Have my links helped you?
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Many, many chess sets use the Staunton style. Look it up and you will find pictures.

The Knight does not look like a natural/real horse. It is in the Staunton style, ie it is stylized.
The Bishop does not look like a natural/real bishop. It is in the Staunto
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'The stylized elephant of the Indian chess set means that they borrowed it from the Indian chess set?Or that they appropriated it from the Indian chess set?Or something else?
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TFD=thefreedictionary.com
CALD=Cambridge Advanced Learners' Dictionary
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In France, the stylized elephant of the Indian chess set was thought to look like a court jester's cap.

The stylized elephant of the Indian chess set means that they borrowed it from the Indian chess set?Or that they appropriated it from the Indian chess set?Or something else?

It just means that when French people saw it, they thought it looked
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