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Examples
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And never minding the seed pearls, you've got quarts of baroques there.
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Scattered among them were the flashing emeralds of the glaciers and the immense pallid baroques of the snow fields.
The Metal Monster 2004
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She wore pearls — a short chain of baroques, which shows taste, restraint, and something called style because each one is deformed and relatively inexpensive.
The Vatican Rip Gash, Jonathan 1981
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Next comes the drop or pear shape, then the button shape, and after these the host of irregular shapes known to the jeweler as "baroques."
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public Frank Bertram Wade
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Most of the baroques are too irregular in shape to have any special name applying to their form.
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public Frank Bertram Wade
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And never minding the seed pearls, you've got quarts of baroques there.
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And never minding the seed pearls, you've got quarts of baroques there.
A Son Of The Sun Jack London 1896
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To me, they have presented little but horror -- to many they will seem less terrible than baroques.
The Black Cat 1843
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O Viva Rosa (Analekta) 3. Violin concerto: Scott & Lara St. John, Mozart (Ancalagon) 4. Vocal ensemble: Les Voix baroques, Carissimi Oratorios (ATMA)
Thestar.com - Home Page John Terauds 2010
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Poètes précieux et baroques du XVIIe siècle (Paris,
BAROQUE IN LITERATURE REN 1968
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