This is known as couching, and is a very effective way of economizing material by displaying it all on the surface. From Wordnik.com. [Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance] Reference
Elsewhere it is kept in place by "couching," a process presently to be described. From Wordnik.com. [Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery] Reference
'couching' & the end of summer might be a better, more appropriate title for some of us. From Wordnik.com. [So What Now? Coaching and the End of Summer] Reference
The hare's best couching-place for fearless sleep!. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844] Reference
In fig. 130 this couching is to be seen in use upon drapery. From Wordnik.com. [Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving] Reference
Ammon a couching place for flocks: and you shall know that I am the. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 31: Ezechiel The Challoner Revision] Reference
I have problem with couching everything in moral or religious tones. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 10, 2004] Reference
HAMILTON: See, that's a poor couching of it, it's not a Chinese project. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 4, 2007] Reference
But knowing what you know now -- you seem to be couching it a little bit. From Wordnik.com. [Press Briefing By Sandy Berger] Reference
Figs. 126, 127, and 128 show three patterns taken from old examples of this couching. From Wordnik.com. [Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving] Reference
A special make of silk for couching down gold thread is obtainable in various colours. From Wordnik.com. [Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving] Reference
He was, by the next day, sort of couching that as they will be among the first to know. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 5, 2004] Reference
The general is couching his desire to break his word in palatable, well-framed language. From Wordnik.com. [Derrick Crowe: Who's the Huckster for This High-Interest War?] Reference
Ravellings of the braid may be used as invisible couching threads for stitching it down. From Wordnik.com. [Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving] Reference
All dwellings in the neighbourhood appear like so many dwarfs couching at the feet of the. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Europe Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met] Reference
The way it sounds to hear my little ones say "I love you mommy" without anyone couching them. From Wordnik.com. [mamarobbi Diary Entry] Reference
In the usual form of couching the gold thread is attached to the material by fine strong silk. From Wordnik.com. [Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving] Reference
The Madonna and child forming the frontispiece of the work is another example of this couching. From Wordnik.com. [Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving] Reference
So both sides are couching these talks with other avenues that they can pursue in case they fail. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 27, 2007] Reference
He saw likewise two young lions couching on a heap of moss, who were not frightened by his presence. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
What is interesting is that a lot of people are couching this as a struggle, an inner party struggle. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 7, 2006] Reference
I think it ` s where she belongs instead of couching her views in some sort of an entertainment show. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 26, 2007] Reference
Lines of gold are used to mark out the border pattern, and are fastened down with the couching stitch. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 353, October 2, 1886.] Reference
But yesterday they kept couching this, saying we think it's him, we think it's him, we think it's him. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 2, 2002] Reference
Almost every example of early gold thread work exhibits this obsolete and ingenious method of couching. From Wordnik.com. [Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving] Reference
Instead of going through the material it can be fixed on each side with a couching stitch, as in fig. 104. From Wordnik.com. [Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving] Reference
He encouraged me to go over there, couching it in terms of “it would be a good idea to make CG jealous.”. From Wordnik.com. [drbigbeef Diary Entry] Reference
Revolution was like the tiger, it advanced couching; though, when it sprang, its bound was sudden and irresistible. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843] Reference
Are we going to hear every politician now, because of exit polls, start couching every issue in moral or religious terms?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 8, 2004] Reference
And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couching-place for flocks; and ye shall know that I am the Lord. From Wordnik.com. [Byeways in Palestine] Reference
Then, couching parables in modern terms, he might proclaim: "Short is the path of the fast lane on the freeway to enlightenment.". From Wordnik.com. [Take Me for a Ride: coming of age in a destructive cult] Reference
FOREMAN: Kevin, he's certainly couching it in delicate language there the idea of when you would talk to these governments or not. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 18, 2008] Reference
The lines expressing the folds of drapery are in this case shown by the couching at these places being taken in a different direction. From Wordnik.com. [Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving] Reference
Braid work is quickly and easily executed; it needs only a suitable pattern and a pretty braid for couching down to be most successful. From Wordnik.com. [Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving] Reference
This practically explains the couching; variety is obtained by change of pattern, but the method of carrying it out is always the same. From Wordnik.com. [Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving] Reference
It is evident that with the same arrangement of strings many other patterns could be carried out by varying the points of couching down. From Wordnik.com. [Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving] Reference
Other writers attempt to make their commonplaces literary by couching them in stilted language, and then we have what is technically termed. From Wordnik.com. [Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story] Reference
As she had come into the keeping of Appanius in virtue of the couching laws, she had had only one sale, that to me for a few copper tarsks. From Wordnik.com. [Magicians of Gor]
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