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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A style of printing calico, paper hangings, etc., in which the colors are in bands and graduated into each other.
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L'Art de faire le vernis, consiste, comme nous l'avons dit, à dissoudre plusieurs résines dans un fluide, ou à incorporer un liquide dans des résines ou bitumes fondus, de manière qu'ils ne puissent pas reprendre leur premier état de consistance.
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From there we moved to the fondus and then the ronds de jambe ô terre.
Butterfly V.C. Andrews 1998
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From there we moved to the fondus and then the ronds de jambe ô terre.
Butterfly V.C. Andrews 1998
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In medieval poetics beside two kinds of form there were two kinds of content (sententia interior); one comprised the subject of a work (fondus rerum) and the plot of the events narrated, the other consisted of the ideological content, the religious or metaphysical import.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas W. TATARKIEWICZ 1968
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Little savouries, foie-gras, or cheese fondus in paper cases are thus handed.
The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 355, October 16, 1886 Various
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So that the public may understand and appreciate the importance of this step, I will sketch, _à coups de crayon peu fondus_, the portrait of a lady as I imagine Mr. Shannon might have painted her.
Modern Painting 1892
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Mes REER ont fondus et en plus je suis en train de perdre mes producteursde revenus aux mains des investisseurs étrangers: Corée, Chine, investisseurs privés et j'en passe.
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Les Fleurs du Mal "métamorphose mystique/ De tous mes sens fondus en un!"
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed ROBERT EVERETT-GREEN 2010
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