quattrocento (c as ch)

or a. [Ital., lit. = four hundredth, but used for fourteen hundredth.] Art : A term applied to the characteristic style of the artists who practiced in the fourteenth century; it was hard, rigid, and peculiar in color as well as in form and pose. It was the intermediate stage of that progre ive period of art, which, commencing with Fra Angelico, reached excellence with Leonardo da Vinci. ( Fairholt .) IMG:content-0075.png:[blocks in formation] "Understande ye how the erthe quareth and shaketh."- Caxton : Mirror of the World , bk. ii., ch. xxii. *quave, s. [QUAVE, v.] A shaking, a trembling. *quāve-mire, s. [Eng. quave , v., and mire.] A quagmire, a bog. "Aratus would not suffer the Achaians to follow them, because of bogs and quavemires." - North: Plutarch, p. 670.