Rope swag
Hello again,Some new doubt appeared, regarding this sentence:"He hoisted the wrecked chair straight over the wall, snapping one of the rose branches that she was training over a rope swag". The first...
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Do a google image search on "rope swag". Sounds to me as though there was a rope arranged in a swag and the roses were to be trained around that.
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Yes, "swag" has a sense of a festoon or garland of flowers. It seems that in this case a rope was being used to train the roses to grow in a particular shape.
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Thank you, Igorman and DaveWiltonI've made a circuit over the net, and from a image to another, I was almost, almost...reaching that idea. But it is better now to count on your explanation.Kind...
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Other than the British slang sense of "booty" or "loot", the only use of swag I've ever heard in the US is the one having to do with curtains: a narrow drape hanging or running horizontally at the top...
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I thank you also Foolscap. Yes, the first time I looked for the expression in the net, the sense you reffered was the most common (also very quoted in stencil works). These words came from an English...
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A swag lamp hangs from the ceiling on a chain (with the electrical cord threaded through it) which is swagged \___/ through a series of hooks over to the wall where it is plugged in. They were very...
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The swag part of a swag lamp, is the looping of the chain through one, or more hooks. So, perhaps the swag rope is hanging in loops along a railing, or some other support?Rich
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