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Alarmed, she swept past the rocker to the window and yanked open the heavy floral draperie.
Too Many Bosses Freed, Jan 1995
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With their capitels or heads, wrought with a waued shell worke, and cyllerie or draperie, their corners bearing out and inanulated or turned in like a curled locke of hayre, or the vpper head of a base Viall aboue the pinnes, which straine the stringes of the instrument to a musicall concord; with their subiect
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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Such as _Callimachus_ the chiefe caruer to _Calathus_ the sonne of _Iupiter_ did neuer performe or come neere in the erected sepulcher of the _Corinthian_ Virgin, beautified with draperie of double
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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[Sidenote A: Thores and Cymbies be the outward parts of a chapter or head of a pillar sticking out further than the pillar wrything and turning in, wrought with leaues, the worke is called of caruers & painters draperie and celerie.]
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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They are chiefly written in that "langue purinique ou gros normand" which was the distinctive patois of the working classes, and especially of those "purins" or "ouvriers de la draperie" who dwelt in the parishes of Martainville, of St. Vivien, and St. Nicaise in the city.
The Story of Rouen Theodore Andrea Cook 1897
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Le poete, dit-il, dedaigne ces distinctions accidentelles de conditions et de pays, comme un peintre qui, content d'avoir peint la figure, neglige la draperie.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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u for n, n for u (inverted letter shown with asterisk): draperie of double _Achan*this_
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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