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Adjective : arabesque design. From Dictionary.com.
The merit of the picture is in the arabesque, which is charming and original. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Painting] Reference
He invented that style of decoration which we now call arabesque or grotesque. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
144 I understand the curiously carved windows cut in arabesque-work of marble. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
So I started to play trumpet in a different way, drawing lines in space, musical lines, kind of arabesque kind of musical calligraphy. From Wordnik.com. [Trumpeter Jon Hassell's 'Fourth World' Music] Reference
Wood, who has a girlfriend, shrugs and tries an arabesque. From Wordnik.com. [We're Here! We Cheer! Get Used To It!] Reference
She ended in a lovely, lyrical supported arabesque though. From Wordnik.com. [Tonya Plank: Lifetime Premieres New Dance Show Meant To Bring Families Together, But Could It's Good Intentions Backfire?] Reference
There were arabesque figures with unsuited limbs and appointments. From Wordnik.com. [Selections from Poe] Reference
The braid used for the arabesque pattern is commonly plain, or has only. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
Four arabesque finials rose, one from each corner of the supporting wall. From Wordnik.com. [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference
The nose of the diorama baby already forms, if you look closely, an arabesque. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
The door of the house, decorated with an arabesque on marble, is in the narrow side street. From Wordnik.com. [Itinerary through Corsica by its Rail, Carriage & Forest Roads] Reference
I let a silent moment pass, then performed a lateral arabesque away from her personal life. From Wordnik.com. [When The Bough Breaks]
Their poses range from foursquare to arabesque, their personalities from ferocious to goofy. From Wordnik.com. [On West 53rd Street,] Reference
There is emotional resonance in how the arabesque is phrased, and how it links to the next step. From Wordnik.com. [Great Leap Forward:] Reference
At that point, he did a lateral arabesque out my door and largely out of the patient relationship. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy Drexler: When Doctors Don't Listen] Reference
The roof is covered with stone groining, with cleverly-executed arabesque painting between the nervures. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
What a beautiful arabesque border might be conceived from a perusal of the late Lord Castlereagh's speeches!. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 23, 1841] Reference
Elsewhere the canoe or cabin of bark or hides, and the arabesque mat, denoted the highest point of social progress. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers] Reference
The floor was an arabesque of different-coloured tiles, covered here and there with a tiny square of bright-hued Persian carpet. From Wordnik.com. [The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891] Reference
A door stood far down a wall with windows filled with arabesque-pierced stone, but she did not think he could have reached that. From Wordnik.com. [The Fires of Heaven]
John-James began slowly to rinse the china through the darkened water, on whose surface the grease lay in a shimmering arabesque. From Wordnik.com. [Secret Bread] Reference
The necklace made a great heap of jewels on the buhl top of the table, above the intricate arabesque of silver and tortoise-shell. From Wordnik.com. [The Sleuth of St. James's Square] Reference
Accidents these may be, but they lend to Victorian biography the charm of a fanciful arabesque or mosaic of varied pattern and hue. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
The ceiling, painted to represent the sky lit up by the crescent moon, was supported by eight arabesque pillars, four on either hand. From Wordnik.com. [Orrain A Romance] Reference
Intermixed are arabesque ornaments, grotesque paintings, and compartments with figures, all apparently employed in domestic occupations. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Its blades were carved in arabesque patterns, and the silk covering was painted with roses and lilies; about half the fan was pure lace. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]
A faint haze of pipesmoke hung in the air, but the arabesque-carved shutters across the wide arched windows let in more than enough light. From Wordnik.com. [A Crown of Swords]
It is the superb arabesque of the beautiful human body that I care for most, and get the most from in these cameo-like bits of beauty and art. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
She wanted to remember every arabesque that the vines were tracing in silhouette against the moonlit sea; but she could not see anything distinctly. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
His fugitive lyrics and arabesque romances, half sardonic and half sentimental, published with Hookham Frere's "Whistlecraft" and Macaulay's Roundhead. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 8, August 19, 1850] Reference
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