saxe

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It was also painful to be obliged to wear a saxe-blue going-away dress when she wanted an olive green, but Ellen reflected that she was submitting for the last time, and anyhow she was spared the worst by the fact that the wedding-gown must be white--not much scope for Joanna there 16 The day before the wedding Joanna felt unusually nervous and restless.

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  1. A commercial name for a quality of albuminized paper exported from Germany (Dresden) for photographic purposes.
  2. An apparatus consisting of a series of rectangular boxes containing some mercury on the bottom and provided with agitating blades. These boxes are used for removing the slime from the gold amalgam. Phillips and Bauerman, Elements of Metallurgy, p. 852.

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  • He was sent into the vestry, whence he and Claude presently emerged wearing, the one, a saxe-blue and the other, a pinkish-brown suit. —  Death In Ecstasy - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 04: 1936
  • The important part consisted in that he renounced his right to own land When he returned to the house, the clerk, with a particularly happy smile on his face, offered him dinner, expressing his fear that it might spoil The table was covered with a gloomy cloth, an embroidered towel serving as a napkin, and on the table, in vieux-saxe, stood a soup-bowl with a broken handle, filled with potato soup and containing the same rooster that he had seen carried into the house on his arrival. —  The Awakening The Resurrection
  • It was also painful to be obliged to wear a saxe-blue going-away dress when she wanted an olive green, but Ellen reflected that she was submitting for the last time, and anyhow she was spared the worst by the fact that the wedding-gown must be white--not much scope for Joanna there 16 The day before the wedding Joanna felt unusually nervous and restless. —  Joanna Godden
  • Joanna was valiant for notions.... Alce had had one glass of champagne At about four o'clock, Joanna dashed into the circle round the bride, and took Ellen away upstairs, to put on her travelling dress of saxe-blue satin--the last humiliation she would have to endure from Ansdore. —  Joanna Godden
  • A vieux-saxe soup tureen with a broken handle stood on the table, full of potato soup, the stock made of the fowl that had put out and drawn in his black leg, and was now cut, or rather chopped, in pieces, which were here and there covered with hairs. —  Voskresenie. English
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  1. So called from Saxe, F. form of German Sachsen, Saxony.
 

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