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  • noun Plural form of calotte.

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Examples

  • Handsome little boys -- all garcons are handsome -- in acolytical splendor of purple and cardinal, with the daintiest of "calottes," come singing their way into your heart in a way to delight our own Father Finn of the Paulist choristers.

    The Greater Love George T. McCarthy

  • The pleasant hush of the cocktail hour was over, and three calottes de boeuf grillée were sputtering like split wicks in a pan.

    In the gilded world of Per Se's kitchen Peter Schorsch 2009

  • The resulting copper sulfate solution is then concentrated either by solar thermal evaporation of the water, or by heating over a fire in drying-calottes made of lead vessels.

    16.1 Roasting oven, calcining furnace 1993

  • The houses, built of brick, were of two different types; some were covered with hemispherical or parabolical calottes, others had flat roofs with a tower in the fashion of a belvedere.

    The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733, January 11, 1890 Various

  • These calottes are, moreover, marvellously painted and decorated in the interior.

    Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Various

  • Burton presently caught sight of Gelele's body-guard of 1,000 women -- the famous Amazons, who were armed with muskets, and habited in tunics and white calottes.

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton Thomas Wright 1897

  • The filaments issued from polar calottes of 20° radius.

    A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874

  • (the second is the common corruption for "Zarábín" = slaves 'shoes, slippers: see vol.x. 1), but M. Hondas translates Ni calottes ni calecons, and for the former word here and in M..

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Burton presently caught sight of Gelele's body-guard of 1,000 women ” the famous Amazons, who were armed with muskets, and habited in tunics and white calottes.

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton Wright, Thomas, 1859-1936 1906

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