. An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology. Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c., with their derivations . Fig. 38. Point dArgentan. ART AND towns, on Ash-Wednesday, they drown an imagecalled Caramentran who represents tlie god oftlie carnival. Argent, Her. The metal silver, representedin engravings by a plain white. Argentan, Point d. Lace made much in thesame way as Point dAlen9on, but havi
. An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology. Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c., with their derivations . Fig. 38. Point dArgentan. ART AND towns, on Ash-Wednesday, they drown an imagecalled Caramentran who represents tlie god oftlie carnival. Argent, Her. The metal silver, representedin engravings by a plain white. Argentan, Point d. Lace made much in thesame way as Point dAlen9on, but having theflowers bolder and larger in pattern and in higherrelief; the foundation, called the bride-ground,is also coarser. It takes its name from the littletown of Argentan in Normandy, where it wasmade. (Fig. 38.). and was used to batter the walls of a city till abreach was effected. The battering-ram wasat first worked by men, who simply carried it intheir arms, but in course of time it was sus-pended from a wooden tower (Fig. 40), or a
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