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Definition of Pluvials
1. pluvial [n] - See also: pluvial
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pluvials
Literary usage of Pluvials
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biodiversity and the Management of the Madrean Archipelago: The Sky Islands edited by Leonard F. DeBano (1999)
"In recent geological time, the fluctuation of pluvials or inter-pluvials has had
a major influence on whether the valley vegetation was a bridge or a ..."
2. Cathay and the Way Thither: Being a Collection of Medieval Notices of China by Henry Yule, Odorico, Rashīd al-Dīn Ṭabīb, Francesco Balducci Pegolotti, Joannes de Marignolis, Ibn Batuta, Bento de Góis (1866)
"... vestments which our books of ritual call pluvials ; processions of suppliants
just like ours; chaunting in a style almost exactly resembling the ..."
3. California Pastoral. 1769-1848 by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1888)
"There were six images on canvas of the virgin, San Diego, and St Dominick, one
statue of St Francis, five complete ornaments, two pluvials or copes, ..."
4. Needlework as Art by Marianne Margaret Compton Cust Alford (1886)
"... where this stitch is employed on a white satin ground ;1 also in the working
of the two pluvials at San Giovanni Laterano at Rome, and at the Museum at ..."
5. Biodiversity and the Management of the Madrean Archipelago: The Sky Islands edited by Leonard F. DeBano (1999)
"In recent geological time, the fluctuation of pluvials or inter-pluvials has had
a major influence on whether the valley vegetation was a bridge or a ..."
6. Cathay and the Way Thither: Being a Collection of Medieval Notices of China by Henry Yule, Odorico, Rashīd al-Dīn Ṭabīb, Francesco Balducci Pegolotti, Joannes de Marignolis, Ibn Batuta, Bento de Góis (1866)
"... vestments which our books of ritual call pluvials ; processions of suppliants
just like ours; chaunting in a style almost exactly resembling the ..."
7. California Pastoral. 1769-1848 by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1888)
"There were six images on canvas of the virgin, San Diego, and St Dominick, one
statue of St Francis, five complete ornaments, two pluvials or copes, ..."
8. Needlework as Art by Marianne Margaret Compton Cust Alford (1886)
"... where this stitch is employed on a white satin ground ;1 also in the working
of the two pluvials at San Giovanni Laterano at Rome, and at the Museum at ..."
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