Lexicographical Neighbors of Etalage
Literary usage of Etalage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Roman Literature from Its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age by John Colin Dunlop (1827)
"... of the rules of prosody. vitesse, que ce qu'elle en recoil de la pente et du
terrein. Point d'esprit, nul etalage de sentiment, aucune sentence qui ait ..."
2. Architectuurgids Nederland: 1900-2000 = Architectural guide to the by Paul Groenendijk, Piet Vollaard (2006)
"De gevel aan de Westzeedijk werkt als etalage; ter verdere promotie van de
tentoonstellingen is de op het dak geplaatste ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1820)
"Here the editor interferes, and gravely asks, in a note, whether it is not possible
that all this etalage was the result of Voltaire's gallantry ? ..."
4. Criminality and Economic Conditions by Willem Adriaan Bonger (1916)
"... entitled, "Les vols a 1'etalage et dans les grands magasins", in which he
shows how the display of goods on the counters in the great bazaars, ..."
5. The Descent of man and selection in relation to sex by Charles Darwin (1909)
"They then also bound about the females with much vivacity, and appear by ''
1'etalage de leurs vives couleurs chercher & attirer ..."
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