from a fashion textbook i am copyediting: "A lace galloon appliqué can be created from the repeat of your lace. A galloon is a cut-out motif trim from the main yardage. Galloons are often used as badges, collars, or trims on lingerie and evening apparel."
"instead of having to repeatedly draw lace or other fine ornamentals like schiffli or passementarie trims, you can render them once, then define a brush." from a textbook on CAD for fashion design.
"instead of having to repeatedly draw lace or other fine ornamentals like schiffli or passementarie trims, you can render them once, then define a brush." from a textbook on CAD for fashion design.
This delicate solid perfume boasts hints of lavender, lotus blossom and bergamot. Joya sphere perfumed lavaliere, $78, at Anthropologie, locations throughout the city; visit anthropologie.com --TONY Seek
"The albarello (or alberello) is the oldest type of pharmacy jar, designed to contain dense, viscous substances. Most albarelli were cylinder-shaped with a wide opening. They were often tapered at the center for easier handling. In the earliest models, the lids consisted of parchment sheets, but later versions had ceramic lids, sometimes fitted with a knob and handles. The Near Eastern style raises the possibility that the albarello reached the West via the Arab invasion of the Mediterranean. But some experts see the albarello as an imitation of the bamboo packaging in which medicinal drugs were shipped from the Orient."
"They were deluxe magazines with a flowery, nouveau aesthetic and pages that looked illuminated, with illustrated margins and colorful Pre-Raphaelite images of pallid damsels in colloquy with knights of the Holy Grail." p 104
tumbel commented on the word margravate
"After Matilda’s death in 1115, there ensued a long struggle between popes and Holy Roman emperors for control of the margravate..."
Oct 30, 2012
tumbel commented on the word galloon
from a fashion textbook i am copyediting: "A lace galloon appliqué can be created from the repeat of your lace. A galloon is a cut-out motif trim from the main yardage. Galloons are often used as badges, collars, or trims on lingerie and evening apparel."
Oct 5, 2012
tumbel commented on the word passementerie
"instead of having to repeatedly draw lace or other fine ornamentals like schiffli or passementarie trims, you can render them once, then define a brush." from a textbook on CAD for fashion design.
Oct 5, 2012
tumbel commented on the word schiffli
"instead of having to repeatedly draw lace or other fine ornamentals like schiffli or passementarie trims, you can render them once, then define a brush." from a textbook on CAD for fashion design.
Oct 5, 2012
tumbel commented on the word struthious
this is in my TONY list, but it didn't appear in the mag; i just came across it in the dicker looking up something else at work.
Sep 17, 2010
tumbel commented on the word bantam
such a good synonym for small!
Apr 5, 2010
tumbel commented on the word mammon
Red offered English audiences the spectacle of a great artist rejecting American mammon... (David Cote, Theater)
Apr 1, 2010
tumbel commented on the word badinage
"Strahs and the actors are shitting us all the time with this clipped badinage..." TONY theater review
Mar 19, 2010
tumbel commented on the word griot
...the ngomi, a plucked lute made from a combinaton of wood or calabash and goatskin, used by griots in northwest Africa...
Mar 19, 2010
tumbel commented on the word calabash
...the ngomi, a plucked lute made from a combinaton of wood or calabash and goatskin, used by griots in northwest Africa...
Mar 19, 2010
tumbel commented on the word scrum
a scrum of readings (theater)
Mar 17, 2010
tumbel commented on the word lavaliere
This delicate solid perfume boasts hints of lavender, lotus blossom and bergamot.
Joya sphere perfumed lavaliere, $78, at Anthropologie, locations throughout the city; visit anthropologie.com --TONY Seek
Nov 25, 2009
tumbel commented on the word klatch
"he’ll provide plenty of reasons to remember in tonight’s improv klatch" -- TONY music listings
Nov 25, 2009
tumbel commented on the list the-mysterious-flame-of-queen-loana
what happens when a book has been translated from the italian and cognates have been used for the latinate words.
Feb 16, 2009
tumbel commented on the word klezmorim
plural of klezmer
Jan 25, 2009
tumbel commented on the word albarello
http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/museum/esim.asp?c=100012
"The albarello (or alberello) is the oldest type of pharmacy jar, designed to contain dense, viscous substances. Most albarelli were cylinder-shaped with a wide opening. They were often tapered at the center for easier handling. In the earliest models, the lids consisted of parchment sheets, but later versions had ceramic lids, sometimes fitted with a knob and handles. The Near Eastern style raises the possibility that the albarello reached the West via the Arab invasion of the Mediterranean. But some experts see the albarello as an imitation of the bamboo packaging in which medicinal drugs were shipped from the Orient."
Oct 11, 2008
tumbel commented on the word mosaic
as in "of or relating to Moses," not a design made of small pieces of stone or glass.
Oct 3, 2008
tumbel commented on the word tonsorial
in a review of the musical HAIR, the writer refers to "tonsorial kudzu."
Aug 18, 2008
tumbel commented on the word rebec
"...ancient instruments (the ramsinga, the oliphant, the Roman bugle, the lute, the rebec, the aeolian harp, Solomon's harp)..." p 108
Nov 24, 2007
tumbel commented on the word ramsinga
"...ancient instruments (the ramsinga, the oliphant, the Roman bugle, the lute, the rebec, the aeolian harp, Solomon's harp)..." p 108
Nov 24, 2007
tumbel commented on the word fly agaric
"...the fly agaric with its red cap flecked with white..." p 108
Nov 24, 2007
tumbel commented on the word equuleus
"...with the victim hoisted and then dropped buttocks-first onto a cushion of whetted iron spikes..." p 108
Nov 24, 2007
tumbel commented on the word colloquy
"They were deluxe magazines with a flowery, nouveau aesthetic and pages that looked illuminated, with illustrated margins and colorful Pre-Raphaelite images of pallid damsels in colloquy with knights of the Holy Grail." p 104
Nov 24, 2007
tumbel commented on the word nowt
nothing, or cows
Dec 23, 2006