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"circassian" frock and a spandy clean white apron.
Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life, 1910
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An accurate rifle that has cleanly killed game and done you proud time and again will eventually become just as beautiful to it's owner as a $1,000 piece of circassian walnut.
Like Peas in a Pod 2008
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On the other hand, if you decide looks are of ultimate importance, then consider circassian walnut.
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Owing to the prejudice against tupelo gum, it was until recently marketed under such names as bay poplar, swamp poplar, nyssa, cotton gum, circassian walnut, and hazel pine.
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Butternut furniture is often sold as circassian walnut.
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She wanted me to have circassian walnut bedroom furniture, but I chose oak.
Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower
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I, as Musidora's mother, could not appear at her funeral in the crimson circassian frock I wore at present.
When Grandmamma Was New The Story of a Virginia Childhood Marion Harland 1876
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We had circassian frocks for every day, and merino for
When Grandmamma Was New The Story of a Virginia Childhood Marion Harland 1876
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You also have three days of circassian dance from Al-Jeel club celebrating its 60th anniversary, a day of discovery at Jabal Al-Qalaa, stories from Weibdeh, and you have Amman's weekly regulars; with talks, films, and live music.
iToot Stream 7iber 2010
chained_bear commented on the word circassian
"... the Vizier looked so very worn (he had three wives, and an applicant for high office had recently sent him a Circassian concubine)..."
--P. O'Brian, The Hundred Days, 183
March 25, 2008