Flamen

A Roman head-dress formed by plaiting the hair in a cone above the forehead, worn esp. by the Flamen and his wife.

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In 1941, the Kharbin Russian newspaper Yevreyski Zhizn [Jewish life] published her war notes, In Fayer un in Flamen, which later appeared as the Yiddish book mentioned above.

Rose Shoshana. 2009

It was this experience of Warsaw under siege and, later, her life in the Shanghai ghetto that Shoshana described in her memoir, In Fayer un in Flamen [In fire and in flames], her only work to appear in book form, published in 1949 in Buenos Aires under the name R. Shoshana-Kahan, as part of the series Dos Poylishe Yidntum [Polish Jewry].

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If his marriage was terminated by her death, the Flamen immediately lost his sacred office and reverted to a private citizen.

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Flamen did not declare them infamous; and the art of Terence was not doubted.

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I shall never forget how lovely Clara looked in white muslin, with her hair down, in this latter picture, giving herself up to a ferocious Carnifex (for which Bob Gaunter the architect sat), and refusing to listen to the mild suggestions of an insinuating Flamen: which character was a gross caricature of myself.

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A. A.binus was a speaker of the same kind; but A.binus, the Flamen, was esteemed an _orator_.

Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker. Marcus Tullius Cicero

[Footnote 9: Flamen, among the ancient Romans, was a priest or minister of sacrifice.]

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 322, July 12, 1828 Various

Ball, Flamen, counsel for the Colored people in Cincinnati, 172.

History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens George Washington Williams

(_Flamen Dialis_), in which case, however, she passed completely into the power of her husband.

A Short History of Women's Rights From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions. Eugene A. Hecker