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Identifier: illustrateddicti00mollrich (find matches)
Title: An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology. Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c, with their derivations
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Mollett, John W. (John William)
Subjects: Art Archaeology -- Dictionaries
Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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n the 15th century in the Low Countries, andfrom that time to the present lace-making hasformed a source of national wealtii to I.elgium.The engraving shows a fine specimen ofold Flemish lace composed of six differentdesigns joined together, commonly known asTrolle Kant. A similar lace is made insome of our own coimties, and called Trolly.(Fig. 317.) . , Fleur-de-lis (Fr.), the royal msigma ofFrance, was first adopted by Louis VI1. (aboutA.D. 1137) scmcc, or scattered over the field.This shield is blazoned as France Ancient.On the occasion of his marriage, in 1234,St. Louis instituted the order of the Cosse deG e n e s t (Fig.\^5v..^ 318), and, as an ■* emblem of hishumility, took forhis badge thebroom-flower withthe motto Exdltiilhitmilis. The col-lar of the orderwas composcil ofbroom - tlo wersenamelled, inter-mixed with flcurs-d e -1 i s. In thereign of CharlesVI. four collarsof the order of theCosse de Ge-nest were sent as. ^ ... jiresents to Kingl^o^^.^^^fl^.^r- Richard 11. and
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142 WORDS USED IN his uncles the Dukes of Lancaster, Gloucester,and York. The fleur-de-lis entered the Englishinsignia in 1275 with the marriage of Edmundwith Blanche of Artois, and was erased onJanuary i, 1801. Fleurettee, Her. Terminating in, or borderedwith fleurs-de-lis, like the cross in Fig. 318. FleuroD. A small full-blown rose placed inthe centre of the abacus of the capital in certainorders of architecture. Flexed, Her. Bowed, bent. Flighted, Her. Feathered, as arrows are. Flo, O. E. An arrow. Rnbiii bent his joly bowe,Therein he set &j2o. (IVrights Songs and Carols.) Floralia, or Florales Ludi. A Roman fes-tival in honour of Flora, said to have beeninstituted li.c. 238, to invoke the protection ofthe goddess u))on the sjiring blossoms. Florentine Fresco. A peculiar method offresco-jminting, by which the lime is keptmoistened durnig the process. Florentine Lake. (Sec Carminated Lakes.)Florentine Mosaic. Inlaid work in colouredstones, and precious stones combined into beau

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