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Pour le nord on la fait orange, en France rouge pur, & pour le midi on la fait tirer sur le cramoisi.
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Note 3: Jean Trudaine de Montigny to John Holker, "Projet de teinture l'écarlat, cramoisi et vert sur coton," November 1765, AN F/12/1330. back
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But I was rather thinking just now of le rideau cramoisi, and its adorable setting of the stopped coach, the dark street, the home-going in the inn yard, and the red blind illuminated.
Vailima Letters 2005
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_Il devint cramoisi_ (in the traditional phrase) and stared.
Grey Roses Henry Harland 1883
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Azure hath a canker by usura; cramoisi is unbroidered
The Guardian World News Patrick Wintour 2011
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Not by usura St. Trophime Not by usura St. Hilaire, Usura rusteth the chisel It rusteth the craft and the craftsman It gnaweth the thread in the loom None learneth to weave gold in her pattern; Azure hath a canker by usura; cramoisi is unbroidered Emerald findeth
WN.com - Articles related to Maharashtra urged to scrap permits for grain-based distilleries 2010
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Not by usura St. Trophime Not by usura St. Hilaire, Usura rusteth the chisel It rusteth the craft and the craftsman It gnaweth the thread in the loom None learneth to weave gold in her pattern; Azure hath a canker by usura; cramoisi
WN.com - Articles related to Maharashtra urged to scrap permits for grain-based distilleries 2010
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Not by usura St. Trophime Not by usura St. Hilaire, Usura rusteth the chisel It rusteth the craft and the craftsman It gnaweth the thread in the loom None learneth to weave gold in her pattern; Azure hath a canker by usura; cramoisi is unbroidered Emerald findeth
WN.com - Articles related to Maharashtra urged to scrap permits for grain-based distilleries 2010
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Son habillement étoit une robe de velours cramoisi, fourrée de martre zibeline, et sur la tête il portoit, comme les Turcs, un chapeau rouge; mais, pour se garantir de la pluie, par-dessus sa robe il en avoit mis une autre de velours, en guise de manteau, selon la mode du pays.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Son vêtement étoit un tissu d'or cramoisi, et elle avoit le visage couvert, selon l'usage de la nation, d'un voile très-riche et ornée de pierreries.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III Richard Hakluyt 1584
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