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- noun Plural form of
mascle .
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Examples
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The explanation of this lies in the fact that when the mascles are tired out and the vigour of the body diminished, the hot bath rouses the circulation and renews the worn-out tissues.
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The explanation of this lies in the fact that when the mascles are tired out and the vigour of the body diminished, the hot bath rouses the circulation and renews the worn-out tissues.
The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken Philip E. Muskett
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Evangeliary of St. Columbanus (not Columba, but the founder of Luxeuil and Bobbio, who died in 614) the Lion of St. Mark is an admirable beast in a suit of green-and-red chain armour in the form of mascles or lozenges.
Illuminated Manuscripts John William Bradley 1873
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Their arms, Or, on two bars gules six mascles of the field, on a canton sable a leopard's face of the first.
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MARGARET FERRERS of Groby, A.D. 1406, has a Shield of _Beauchamp_ -- _gu., a fesse between six crosslets or_, impaling _Ferrers_ -- _gu., seven mascles, three three and one, or_.
The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844
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Troisvilles were enabled to see that he bore:/Party of France, two cottises gemelled gules, and gules, five mascles or, placed end to end; on a chief sable, a cross argent/.
The Jealousies of a Country Town Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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Troisvilles were enabled to see that he bore:/Party of France, two cottises gemelled gules, and gules, five mascles or, placed end to end; on a chief sable, a cross argent/.
An Old Maid Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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Mertoun and those of Newmains, in addition to the arms borne by the Haliburtons of Dirleton (the ancient chiefs of that once great and powerful, but now almost extinguished name) -- viz. _or_, on a bend _azure_, three mascles of the first -- gave the distinctive bearing of a buckle of the second in the sinister canton.
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10) 1824
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I could detail them in the jargon of heraldry, but it is better to speak to your eyes by translating them into colored drawings, as the sublime science of armory has fallen into some neglect of late years, with all its mascles, buckles, crescents, and boars of the first, second, third, and fourth.
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) 1824
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Her dress displayed the mascles of her husband's arms, her gracefully draped cloak was lined with vair, she held a flower-de-luce in her right hand, and shields of arms of Fitzwalter and Quincy hung from the branches of a delicately curved tree in front of her.
Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity [microform] 1770
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