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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)

Mollett, John W. (John William) · London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington · leaf 338

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er inscription onmonuments. (4) A large board mounted on a spearand inscribed with the numbers of the prisoners,cities, and standards that had been capturedfrom the enemy; carried in a triumph or OVATION. Tobine. A stout twilled silk. Toga, R. {(ego, to cover). The principalouter garment of a… … Fig. 655. Tintinnabulum. Side view. The colour of the toga was ordinarily white.Candidates (from candidits, white) were so calledfrom their whitening their togas with chalk ; thetoga pid/a, of the natural colour of black wool,was worn in mourning ; the toga picta, or em-broidered toga, was for…

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