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Example sentences for "lambrequin"

Lexicographically close words:
lambent; lambes; lambing; lambkins; lamblike; lambrequins; lambs; lambskin; lame; lamed
  1. Regularly, like the rise, and fall of a wave on the summer sea, it rose and fell, while my pale lambrequin of hair rose and fell fitfully with it.

  2. I am more Paul Lambrequin than you ever were.

  3. If I had the chance to play Eric Everard just once, they'd give Lambrequin back to the Indians.

  4. As Paul Lambrequin was clambering up the stairs of his rooming house, he met a man whose face was all wrong.

  5. I am more Paul Lambrequin than I was--whoever I was on my native planet.

  6. For the next four weeks, Paul Lambrequin lurked in his room while Ivo Darcy played Paul Lambrequin playing Eric Everard.

  7. I want you to go on as Paul Lambrequin playing Eric Everard.

  8. You see, Paul," Ivo said, "I am Paul Lambrequin now.

  9. The modern use of the lambrequin as an ornamental finish to window-curtains is another instance of misapplied decoration.

  10. The mediaeval bed was always enclosed in curtains hanging from a wooden framework, and the lambrequin was used as a kind of cornice to conceal it.

  11. When the use of gathered window-shades became general in Italy, the lambrequin was transferred from the bed to the window, in order to hide the clumsy bunches of folds formed by these shades when drawn up.

  12. In some instances the name is placed upon a bracket similar to the upper part of the plate in decoration, or, again, it may be seen upon a small curtain or lambrequin caught up at the ends with string.

  13. A lambrequin looped up with cord and fasteners above.

  14. The lace or lambrequin decoration round the border is exceedingly rich and fine, and shows at once whence the artists of Rouen borrowed their favorite design.

  15. A mantel-board of pine, two inches longer and two inches wider than the shelf, is always necessary when there is to be a lambrequin, for upon this the lambrequin is tacked.

  16. How the mantel-piece was otherwise reformed, the writer never saw, but it might have been greatly improved and altered by the addition of shelves above, or a suitable lambrequin upon the mantel-shelf.

  17. Mrs. Cole's stained and spotted lambrequin became more offensive than ever, and the industrious hands of Maggie, which did much more than merely to pass things at table, were now less easy to endure.

  18. Regularly, like the rise and fall of a wave on the summer sea, it rose and fell, while my pale lambrequin of hair rose and fell fitfully with it.

  19. Of these there are ten in which the crest is not attached to the lambrequin and helmet by anything perceptible, eight are attached with fillets of varying widths, twenty-one crests are upon chapeaux, and twenty-nine issue from coronets.

  20. As the conventional slashings of the lambrequin hinted at past hard fighting in battle, so did the conventional torse hint at past service to and favour of ladies, love and war being the occupations of the perfect knight of romance.

  21. In German heraldry a rather more noticeable distinction is drawn than with ourselves between the lambrequin (Helmdecke) and the mantle (Helmmantel).


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