Marquetry

  • 91Regency style — Style in the decorative arts and architecture produced in England during the regency (1811–20) and reign (1820–30) of George IV. Designers borrowed both structural and ornamental elements from Greek and Roman antiquity. Egyptian motifs, inspired… …

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  • 92Régence style — French style in the decorative arts that developed с 1710–1730, when Philippe II, duc d Orléans, was regent of France. It marks the transition from the massive rectilinear forms of furniture in the Louis XIV style to the Rococo forms of Louis XV… …

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  • 93art and architecture, Egyptian — Introduction       the ancient architectural monuments, sculptures, paintings, and decorative crafts produced mainly during the dynastic periods of the first three millennia BC in the Nile valley regions of Egypt and Nubia. The course of art in… …

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  • 94furniture industry — Introduction       all the companies and activities involved in the design, manufacture, distribution, and sale of functional and decorative objects of household equipment.       The modern manufacture of furniture, as distinct from its design,… …

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  • 95Mervyn Leroy Handicap top three finishers and starters — This is a listing of the horses that finished in either first, second, or third place and the number of starters in the Mervyn Leroy Handicap, an American Grade 2 race for horses three years old up at 1 1/16 miles on synthetic surface held at… …

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  • 96Hatmaking — Paja toquilla hatmaker, Cuenca, Ecuador …

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  • 97Eisaku Noro Company — Eisaku Noro Company, Ltd. Industry Manufacturing Founder(s) …

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  • 98mosaic — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. tilework, inlay, [in]tarsia; jigsaw puzzle; tesserae, tessellation; mixture, montage, kaleidoscope. adj. mosaical, motley; tessellated; pieced, joined. See ornament, variegation. II (Roget s IV) modif …

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  • 99Variegation — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Variegation >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 variegation variegation Sgm: N 1 colors colors dichroism trichroism Sgm: N 1 iridescence iridescence play of colors polychrome maculation spottiness striae …

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  • 100mark — English has two words mark, although they may be ultimately related. Mark ‘sign, trace’ [OE] goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *markō. This seems originally to have denoted ‘boundary’ (that is what Old English mearc meant, and related forms… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins