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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 (1883)

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n it.In the reign of Henry VIII. it was worth I2d.and afterwards 6d. French testers were struckby Louis XII. in 1513, and Scotch under QueenMary in 1559. Testiere, Med. Fr. Originally, mailed armourfor a horses head, subsequently a plate betweenthe ears on which a crest was fixed. (SeeChanfron.)… … Testudo, R. (testa, ashell). (i) A tortoise, andthence a lyre of which the sounding bottom was ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY. 317 made out of a tortoise-shell. (2) In Archi-tecture, an arched ceiHng, the four sides ofwhich converge to a centre. (3) Testudo ark-taria was a movable wooden shed coveredwith…

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