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The principal dedicatee of her book is the dowager Duchess of Cumberland, “an exceedingly pious lady, a zealous puritan who helped foster the spread of her beliefs” (id. s.v. “Margaret Clifford”).
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French & Eng. Tongues s.v. Barbute, A riding hood; a Montero, or close hood, wherewith travellers preserve their faces and heads from frost-biting and weather-beating.
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Her father worshiped in the Church of England (ibid.), and she herself was baptized, wed and buried as a Protestant (id. s.v. “Emilia Lanier”).
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French & Eng. Tongues s.v. Barbute, A riding hood; a Montero, or close hood, wherewith travellers preserve their faces and heads from frost-biting and weather-beating.
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* Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd ed., s.v. Taxil, Leo.
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Note 272: See Oxford English Dictionary, s.v. alphin. back
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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A juncture of circumstances requiring or calling for an action; necessity or need arising from circumstances (Oxford English Dictionary, s.v. occasion).
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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For another explanation, see Rashi on Shabbat 88b, s.v. “974 generations.”
The Ten Commandments David Hazony 2010
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Note 2: Oxford English Dictionary, s.v. "aspicis." back
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Note 4: Oxford English Dictionary, s.v. "aspect." back
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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