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 64
.\, anevergreen, thewood of whichwas used forvarious purposes, as with us. By analogy, theterm bitxuin 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. Erench, boujon : a boult, an… … Fig. iiS. Arch-buttress. so WORDS USED IN material, since we learn from Pliny that thebyssus cloth which he calls linuin byssiintm wasexceedingly dear. 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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