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The Decorator's assistant (1847)

[London : W. Gibbs] · leaf 171

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expressed in the accompanying illustration,representing the battlements of a wall orcastle. 4 . Emblems (in all the arts), correctly speakingemblems are inlaid work, enamel, &c.; but inits modern and more extensive application. … the word is used for any occult representation,allusiTe pictures, or sculptures, and the like.Emblems and attributes belong to art, allegoryto poetry. Engrailed, or Ingrailed (in heraldy), iswhen a thing is represented with its edges

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