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Definition of Arabesques
1. arabesque [n] - See also: arabesque
Lexicographical Neighbors of Arabesques
Literary usage of Arabesques
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principles of Ornament by James Ward, George Aitchison (1896)
"CHAPTER IX THE arabesques of the Vatican have been noticed before ; there were,
however, arabesques on the ceiling of the Sala del Cambio at Perugia, ..."
2. Etude pratique du paludisme et des parasites du sang by John William Watson Stephens, John Addington Symonds, Samuel Rickard Christophers (1909)
"... Signorelli—The Precursor of Michael Angelo—Anatomical Studies—Sense of Beauty—The
Chapel of S. Brizio at Orvieto —Its arabesques and Medallions—Degrees ..."
3. Ancient Art and Its Remains: Or, A Manual of the Archaeology of Art by Karl Otfried Müller, Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (1852)
"The living and genial conception of nature which 1 pervades ancient art was well
adapted for arabesques (§. 24. K. 2.), the age of which in Greek art ..."
4. The Rhine from Rotterdam to Constance: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1884)
"9), in the Byzantine style, embellished with gilding and arabesques ; and the
Main Railway Station (PI. ..."
5. John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Illustrated and Embellished with Views of the by John Lawson Stoddard (1897)
"... arabesques and the Koran, — the graceful Oriental characters mingling and
intertwining like the finest scroll-work or the slender stems and tendrils of ..."
6. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1893)
"The wooden table, in the carved arabesques and turned open-work, of which we
reproduce an ably of Cairene workmanship, and is most likely of ..."
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