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, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington · leaf 136
h products, inscribed Dickhoofand A. Diiislmrg, and by the latter nameidentified as Dunkirk work. Duns, Celtic. Ancient hill forts of the sim-plest kind, consisting of a round or oval earthenwall and ditch on a rising ground, probablycontemporary with the pit dwellings. Dunster, O. P^. Broad-cloth… … Eagle, Her. The eagle (called in heraldry.-i/tvw;/) appears inthe earliest iMiglishexamples of arms,\ and his appearance\ often denotes an> alliance with Ger-man princes. Boththe German em-]ierors and Rus-sian czars adoptedthe eagle for theirheraldic ensign insupport of theirclaim to be con-Fig.…
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