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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 59

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uff now calle<l Bom-basin. A sort of fine silk or cotton cloth wellknown upon the continent during the 13thcentury. (Striitt.) Bombe, Ir. Curved furniture, introducedin the iSth cciitiuy. Bombulom or Bunibulum, O. E. (from theGreek ^oix&oi, a hollow deep sound). A musi-cal instrument… … Fig. 91. Bombards worn by King James I. of England. liquid makes in pouring out through its narrowneck. Bone Black. (See Ivory Black.)Book. In mediaeval art an attribute of thefathers of the Church ; in the hands of evange-lists and apostles it represents the Gospel. St.Boniface carries a book…

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