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The distinctive approaches of Sermisy and Gombert can be studied by comparing their settings of Gris et tanne.
Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009
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-- [MS. M.] [403] {344} _Tannen_ is the plural of _tanne_, a species of fir peculiar to the Alps, which only thrives in very rocky parts, where scarcely soil sufficient for its nourishment can be found.
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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Woman, _she is a married woman, she has got another husband_, Terra, tanne.
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To make them hardie, in the coldest mornings they them wash in the rivers, and by painting and oyntments so tanne their skinnes, that after a yeare or two, no weather will hurt them.
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It will be a marchandize right good, and the Sauages there yet can not tanne Lether after our kinde, yet excellently after their owne manner.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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We much maruel what you mean to buy Seale skins and tanne them.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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a peyr bedys of blak _get_, and a grene hod, and a red hod, and a gowne of violet, and another of tanne, and a towayll of diaper werk, and a
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