The second person singular, indicative mode, present tense, of the substantive verb Be; but formed after the analogy of the plural are…
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elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century
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the creation of beautiful or significant things; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he s…
Used in the same subject area: Art and design, Art history.the creation of beautiful or significant things; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he s…
Used in the same subject area: Art and design, Art history.In bad taste; grotesque; odd.
Used in the same subject area: Art and design, Art history.Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous.
Used in the same subject area: Art and design, Art history.an artistic movement in France beginning in 1907 that featured surfaces of geometrical planes
Used in the same subject area: Art and design, Art history.an art movement early in the 20th century; the artist's subjective expression of inner experiences was emphasized; an inner feeling wa…
Used in the same subject area: Art and design, Art history.A learning or knowing by inquiry; the knowledge of facts and events, so obtained; hence, a formal statement of such information; a nar…
Used in the same subject area: Art and design, Art history.The theory or method of suggesting an effect or impression without elaboration of the details; -- a disignation of a recent fashion in…
Used in the same subject area: Art and design, Art history.characteristic of the present; "contemporary trends in design"; "the role of computers in modern-day medicine"
Used in the same subject area: Art and design, Art history.Modern practice; a thing of recent date; esp., a modern usage or mode of expression.
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Made or decorated after the fanciful style of the ornamentation in the Alhambra, which affords an unusually fine exhibition of Saracen…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elaborate, extensive, ornamentation, decorative, architecture.The art or science of building; especially, the art of building houses, churches, bridges, and other structures, for the purposes of c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elaborate, extensive, ornamentation, decorative, architecture.(architecture) a form of artistic expression (such as writing or painting or architecture)
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elaborate, extensive, ornamentation, decorative, architecture.Of or pertaining to Attica, in Greece, or to Athens, its principal city; marked by such qualities as were characteristic of the Atheni…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elaborate, extensive, ornamentation, decorative, architecture.A light box of pasteboard or thin wood, usually cylindrical, for holding ruffs (the bands of the 17th century), collars, caps, bonnets…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elaborate, extensive, ornamentation, decorative, architecture.A machine, invented in the 17th century, worked by a form of reaction wheel. The water flows into a vertical tube and gushes from aper…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elaborate, extensive, ornamentation, decorative, architecture.A four-wheeled carriage, having a sheltered seat behind the body and separate from it, invented in the 17th century, at Berlin.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elaborate, extensive, ornamentation, decorative, architecture.the predominant philosophical tradition in Great Britain since the 17th century
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elaborate, extensive, ornamentation, decorative, architecture.Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elaborate, extensive, ornamentation, decorative, architecture.A king of Lydia who flourished in the 6th century b. c., and was renowned for his vast wealth; hence, a common appellation for a very…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elaborate, extensive, ornamentation, decorative, architecture.To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elaborate, extensive, ornamentation, decorative, architecture.Two of the same kind; a pair; a couple.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elaborate, extensive, ornamentation, decorative, architecture.Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborat…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elaborate, extensive, ornamentation, decorative, architecture.Having wide extent; of much superficial extent; expanded; large; broad; wide; comprehensive; as, an extensive farm; an extensive lake;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elaborate, extensive, ornamentation, decorative, architecture.One of a fanatical sect which flourished in Europe in the 13th and 14th centuries, and maintained that flagellation was of equal virtu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elaborate, extensive, ornamentation, decorative, architecture.A vessel propelled by oars, whether having masts and sails or not
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elaborate, extensive, ornamentation, decorative, architecture.One of the followers of Francis Gomar or Gomarus, a Dutch disciple of Calvin in the 17th century, who strongly opposed the Arminians.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elaborate, extensive, ornamentation, decorative, architecture.A piece of armor, whether of chain mail or of plate, defending the throat and upper part of the breast, and forming a part of the doub…
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