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- noun Plural form of
vandyke . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
vandyke .
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Examples
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A scroll of steel beads below the group is intermixed with the white, and the top and bottom of the square end are finished off with vandykes of plain scarlet without beads.
The Ladies' Work-Book Containing Instructions In Knitting, Crochet, Point-Lace, etc. Unknown
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The edge of the grapefruit cup may be cut in vandykes, or otherwise ornamented.
Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing-Dish Dainties With Fifty Illustrations of Original Dishes Janet McKenzie Hill 1892
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Cut the edges of the apples in small vandykes; keep fresh in cold water until ready to serve.
Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing-Dish Dainties With Fifty Illustrations of Original Dishes Janet McKenzie Hill 1892
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The bottom edge should be finished off with rounded scallops or toothed vandykes worked in button-hole stitch.
Encyclopedia of Needlework Th��r��se de Dillmont 1868
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The loose end is cut into three wavy vandykes, to represent tongues of flame, and a silk tassel is hung at each cleft.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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These braces are made of Java canvas lined with calico ornamented with embroidery in black silk and red wool, and edged on either side with loose button-hole stitch and crochet vandykes in red wool.
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The ground of the border, No. 561, is formed by a strip of straight netting 9 squares wide, cut out in vandykes on one side, and worked round in button-hole stitch, as seen in illustration.
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The grounding consists of 2 rows of vandykes placed opposite each other, which are formed of long straight stitches of different lengths.
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The vandykes are worked as follow -- in one row: 1 double in 1 button-hole stitch, * 1 purl (3 chain, 1 double in the 1st), missing the next button-hole stitch under it; 1 double in the following button-hole stitch, repeat from *.
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The latter are then edged with button-hole stitch and crochet-vandykes.
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