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. 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. 655. Tintinnabulum. Side view. The colour of the toga was ordinarily (from candidits, white) were so calledfrom their whitening their togas with chalk ; thetoga pid/a, of the natural colour of black wool,was worn in mourning ; the toga picta, or em-broidered toga, was for generals
. 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. 655. Tintinnabulum. Side view. The colour of the toga was ordinarily (from candidits, white) were so calledfrom their whitening their togas with chalk ; thetoga pid/a, of the natural colour of black wool,was worn in mourning ; the toga picta, or em-broidered toga, was for generals on their triumphs.(See also Pk/ETEXTA, Trahea, &c.) The illus-tration (Fig. 656) represents the statue of aRoman senator of the Augustan age. Togatus, R. Wearing the toga; essentially theRoman costume, opposed io palliatus, a man inthe Greek dress. Togula, R. (dimin. of toga). (i) A togaof a line texture ; or (2) the short and thread-. 322 WORDS USED IN bare toga of coarse texture, worn by a poor man,who tlien went by the name o{ togatulus. Toilinet. A textile of silk or cotton warp,with woollen weft. Toise. In French lineal measurement = 76inches. Toison dOr, Her. The Golden Fleece. AFrench order of knighthood, instituted by Philipthe Good in 1429. The order has a king-at-arms called Toison dOr. The collar is composedof flint-stones, alternately with double fusilsplaced two and two together, forming double this suspends a Golden Fleece. Themotto is, Pretium non vile laborum. (SeeFusil.) Tokens. Small coins issued by tradesmen forcurrent money. (Consult IV. Boy7ies Tokens,&c.) ToUeno, R. {fol/o, to lift), (i; A contrivancefor drawing water from a well, made of a strongcross-bar poised from the top of an uprightbeam, with a weight at one end and a rope andbucket at the other. (2) A similar apparatuswas used in siege operations to lift soldiers upto a wall. Tom-tom. Oriental small drum, of a barrelform, co
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