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- noun Plural form of
rasse .
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Not only the robes and diadems of the deceased emperor, but even the helmets, sword-hilts, belts, rasses, &c., were enriched with pearls, emeralds, and diamonds.] [Footnote 29: -- Tantoque remoto Principe, mutatas orbis non sensit habenas.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Not only the robes and diadems of the deceased emperor, but even the helmets, sword-hilts, belts, rasses, &c., were enriched with pearls, emeralds, and diamonds.] 29 — Tantoque remoto
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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30 A TREATISE ON THE CONNECTION OP To this process of oxygenation, the continuance of ve - getable matter on the surface of the earth is principally to be ascribed; as in the case of peat mosses, fens, and mo - rasses, as well as in most soils, but more especially in such as have long been under cultivation.
A treatise, shewing the intimate connection that subsists between agriculture and chemistry, addressed to the cultivators of the soil, to the proprietors of fens and mosses, in Great Britain and Ireland; and to the proprietors of West India estates Dundonald, Archibald Cochrane, Earl of, 1749?-1831 1795
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