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[ adjective ] pulled or drawn tight
Synonyms Examples "taut sails" "a tight drumhead" "a tight rope" Used in print (Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)Some time in 1912 , Picasso cut_out and folded a piece_of_paper in the shape of a guitar ; to this he glued and fitted other pieces_of_paper and four taut strings , thus creating a sequence of flat surfaces in real and sculptural space to which there clung only the vestige of a picture_plane . (Robert Penn Warren, Wilderness....)He wondered if it wore the old anxiety , or the old , taut stoicism . (Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)His head undulated gradually , covering space , to come straining beneath the taut belly within the warmth of those teats . Related terms |
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