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Examples
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Curl is also referred to as fiddleback for its traditional use in making instruments
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It even has a nice walnut stock with fiddleback grain.
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Gothic fiddleback chasubles sit uncomfortably with the Romanesque spaces of Westminster.
Update on Some Liturgical Details for the Installation of Archbishop Vincent Nichols 2009
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It even has a nice walnut stock with fiddleback grain.
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The very first ones were made with handle scales of fiddleback maple and black walnut.
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The base of the machine was shaped like a fiddleback, made of intricately cast and clear-lacquered brass.
The Safe 2006
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At the end of the day, after everyone had left, Alva sat in his desk chair and toured the sewing machine, touching the inlaid slide plates, the platinum tension adjustment, and, on the fiddleback base, the mosaic peacock inlaid with bars of amethyst.
The Safe 2006
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Betjeman reference to fiddleback chasubles in mid-Lent pink certainly refers to Pusey House, Oxford, even though Comper's work dates from after he went down but his nostalgic poem, 'Anglo-Catholic Congresses' puts Travers at St Augustine's, Queens Gate, South Kensington, more prominently into focus.
Archive 2008-03-16 papabear 2008
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At the end of the day, after everyone had left, Alva sat in his desk chair and toured the sewing machine, touching the inlaid slide plates, the platinum tension adjustment, and, on the fiddleback base, the mosaic peacock inlaid with bars of amethyst.
The Safe 2006
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The base of the machine was shaped like a fiddleback, made of intricately cast and clear-lacquered brass.
The Safe 2006
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