Definitions
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- adjective Ornamented in the style of arabesques.
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- adjective Patterned with
arabesques .
Etymologies
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Examples
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More an Irish sprite than anything, Mairead leapt, twirled, and 'arabesqued' her way across the stage courting us through her violin.
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The Shaykh opened the door and they two entered a vestibule vaulted with onyx stones and arabesqued with gold, and they stayed not walking till they came to a great hall and a wide, paved and walled with marble.
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You walk across the courtyard into the arabesqued porch directly opposite the entrance and you are in a weirdly high single-file corridor like those secret passages in the innards of Egyptian pyramids.
Remnant of a Humanist Past Malik Kaylan 2008
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The ineffective, protected by an Old Boy system more bomb-proof than teacher tenure, get arabesqued to make-work jobs like Coordinator for Pep Squad and Student Store.
School administration: the education reform they don't talk about 2008
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You walk across the courtyard into the arabesqued porch directly opposite the entrance and you are in a weirdly high single-file corridor like those secret passages in the innards of Egyptian pyramids.
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And whilst each one hent bunch in hand, the gardener brought the wine-service and setting it before them, on a tray of porcelain arabesqued with red gold, recited these two couplets,
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In single file, their ostrich plumes nodding, their leopard skin tunics contrasting curiously with the marble and arabesqued metal of the ancient palace, they moved across the wide room and halted momentarily at the golden door to the left of the throne-dais.
The Conquering Sword of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005
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In single file, their ostrich plumes nodding, their leopard skin tunics contrasting curiously with the marble and arabesqued metal of the ancient palace, they moved across the wide room and halted momentarily at the golden door to the left of the throne-dais.
The Conquering Sword Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005
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Then presently we were in the famous Court of the Lions, where a group of those beasts, at once archaic and puerile in conception, sustained the basin of a fountain in the midst of a graveled court arabesqued and honeycombed round with the wonted ornamentation of the Moors.
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Jaypur marble, with their arabesqued cupolas and lacery in stone.
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