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)
Mollett, John W. (John William) · London, S. Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington · leaf 60
|o$). Box, anevergreen, thewood of whichwas used forvarious purposes, as with us. By analogy, theterm buxum was applied to objects made ofthis wood, such as combs, flutes, childrensshoes, and waxed tablets for writing. Buzo, O. E. The arrow for an arquebus, orcross-bow. French, boujoii: a boult, an… … Fig. 118. Arch-buttre.ss. so \YORDS USED IN material, since we Itarn from Pliny that thebyssus cloth which he calls linum byssimnn wasexceedingly clear. Everything leads us to sup-pose that it was a linen material of the finestquality. This opinion would seem to be con-firmed by Herodotus and…
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