Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Fitted with two walls.
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Examples
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The composition -- which is something more than the old-time glue and molasses -- is prepared for pouring by melting in a double-jacketed steam kettle, the stirring being done by a mixer run by steam power.
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O evening sun of July, how at this hour thy beams fall slant on reapers amid peaceful, woody fields; on old women spinning in cottages; on ships far out in the silent main; on balls at the Orangerie at Versailles, where high-rouged dames of the palace are even now dancing with double-jacketed Hussar officers; -- and also on this roaring
Thomas Carlyle John Nichol 1863
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1789: -- 'O evening sun of July, how, at this hour, thy beams fall slant on reapers amid peaceful woody fields; on old women spinning in cottages; on ships far out in the silent main; on balls at the Orangerie at Versailles, where high-rouged dames of the Palace are even now dancing with double-jacketed Hussar officers; -- and also on this roaring
Critical Miscellanies, Volume I (of 3) Essay 4: Macaulay John Morley 1880
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Orangerie of Versailles, where high rouged Dames of the palace are even now dancing with double-jacketed Hussar-officers: -- and also on this roaring Hell-porch of a Hôtel de Ville. "
The Glory of English Prose Letters to My Grandson Stephen Coleridge 1895
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So "that evening sun of July" sent its beams on Gibbon mourning the dead friend, as well as on "reapers amid peaceful woods and fields, on old women spinning in cottages, on ships far out on the silent main, on balls at the Orangerie of Versailles, where high-rouged dames of the palace are even now dancing with double-jacketed Hussar officers."]
Gibbon James Cotter Morison 1860
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