. 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. 42. Armilla. Celtic Armed, Her. Having natural weapons ofoffence, &c. A lion is armed of his claws andteeth, a bull of his horns, & Greea. (See Chrvsocolla.)Armet, Old Eng. A kind of helmet of thel6!.h century, worn with or without the beaver. Armilausa, Lat. A classical garm
. 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. 42. Armilla. Celtic Armed, Her. Having natural weapons ofoffence, &c. A lion is armed of his claws andteeth, a bull of his horns, & Greea. (See Chrvsocolla.)Armet, Old Eng. A kind of helmet of thel6!.h century, worn with or without the beaver. Armilausa, Lat. A classical garmentadopted in England and elsewhere, worn byknights over their armour. Strutt describes itas a round curtal weed, which they called acloak, and in Latin armilausa, as only coveringthe shoulders. Armilla. Ingeneral, any cir-clet of gold orsilver which forms a braceletfor men or wo-men, whetherworn on the^\•rist, arm, orankle. BraceletsMorn by menoften consistedof three or fourmassive bandsof bronze, silver,or gold, and thuscovered a con-siderable portionof the were^\■orn by theAssyrians, the Babylonians, the , thePersians, the Celts (Fig. 42), and the Gauls(Fig. 43 I. The Egyptians in some instances em-ployed ivory and porcelain in their , R. A kind of urceolus, or smallpi
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