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  • You also might find more fabrics with a shiny, wet appearance, the result of a treatment called cire, which helps with weatherproofing.

    Local News from Tuscaloosa News 2009

  • He un rolled his bedroll, un folded his sleeping bad, gt his little coffee pot, flled with some water and coffee, placed near the fie stones around the cire circe.

    Why Minivans Make Great Hunting Vehicles 2010

  • Photographs by Tesh | Styling by Karina Givargisoff Prada camel double cashgora top with double wool knit and mink fur collar $3,225, cire skirt $590 and patent-leather bow belt $355 Prada. com

    Camel Staples 2010

  • His insistence on using the techniques of antiquity—he still scales up from small clay models and, when his work is cast, the foundry uses the cire perdue method—result in work that is completely contemporary, yet also somehow fragments that could have come from any point in the history of Western art.

    A Magnificent Obsession Andrew McKie 2011

  • Andrew Testa/Panos for The Wall Street Journal He still insists on using the techniques of antiquity—scaling up from small clay models and, when his work is cast, the foundry uses the cire perdue method.

    Wild Horses Andrew McKie 2011

  • Andrew Testa/Panos for The Wall Street Journal He still insists on using the techniques of antiquity—scaling up from small clay models and, when his work is cast, the foundry uses the cire perdue method.

    Wild Horses Andrew McKie 2011

  • He un rolled his bedroll, un folded his sleeping bad, gt his little coffee pot, flled with some water and coffee, placed near the fie stones around the cire circe.

    Why Minivans Make Great Hunting Vehicles 2010

  • His insistence on using the techniques of antiquity—he still scales up from small clay models and, when his work is cast, the foundry uses the cire perdue method—result in work that is completely contemporary, yet also somehow fragments that could have come from any point in the history of Western art.

    A Magnificent Obsession Andrew McKie 2011

  • The decanter was created using the traditional and now-rare technique of cire perdue, meaning "lost wax," and is shaped with a flat bottom, like the decanters used on board ships in the 1820s.

    Scotch Whisky: Do You Decant? 2010

  • By way of explanation, Mr Frog emailed me a link to a youtube video of France Gall singing her 1965 Eurovision winning, Gainsbourg-penned Poupée de cire, poupée de son.

    slim, sexy en druk 2007

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