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  • Thumbnail for Gracefulness
    Gracefulness, or being graceful, is the physical characteristic of displaying "pretty agility", in the form of elegant movement, poise, or balance. The...
    7 KB (921 words) - 15:27, 23 September 2023
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    hardness of its timber. It is widely cultivated as an ornamental for its graceful shape, grayish-green foliage with a beautiful pink to red flush of drooping...
    10 KB (1,031 words) - 16:49, 23 January 2024
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    Wishbone chair] is an understated work of simplicity and comfort, its graceful shape hinting at both East Asian design and modernist ideals. — Hans Wegner's...
    7 KB (696 words) - 23:52, 24 December 2023
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    bentwood rocking chair in 1860. This design is distinguished by its graceful shape and its light weight. These rocking chairs were influenced by Greek...
    9 KB (973 words) - 17:28, 17 October 2023
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    flying style is circular in pattern with swift darting motions. It has graceful shape and flight, moreover it often fly singly, in couples or in clusters...
    18 KB (2,280 words) - 20:33, 29 May 2024
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    Kyathos (category Ancient Greek pot shapes)
    handle. Its closest modern parallel would be a ladle. "The kyathos has a graceful shape resembling a teacup, though a bit larger, with a high looped, flat-strap...
    1 KB (112 words) - 08:08, 25 January 2024
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    Roger: He was a youth of the greatest beauty, of lofty stature, of graceful shape, most eloquent in speech and cool in counsel. He was far-seeing in arranging...
    20 KB (2,393 words) - 02:33, 19 May 2024
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    four hundred people in canoes. Although the Spaniards admired their "graceful shape" and "almost white" complexion, the relationship with the natives later...
    17 KB (2,047 words) - 18:57, 29 February 2024
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    Just as in the vestry, the inner surface of the tent is hewn in the graceful shape of stalactites which also decorate the capitals of the half-columns...
    29 KB (3,473 words) - 22:32, 9 May 2024
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    Flodden in 1513. Sir Thomas Howard, England's Lord Admiral, admired their graceful shape and brilliant finish, declaring them the most beautiful [cannon] for...
    106 KB (12,380 words) - 04:53, 27 May 2024
  • keep it "simple"; he wanted Castle to make sure the character moved "gracefully" and was a "blank slate that we can project everything into, and make...
    62 KB (7,600 words) - 16:29, 16 June 2024
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    terminated the ascenders of the earlier face, while conserving the graceful shape of the ligature et.": lvii  In 1536, Colines printed his most famous...
    13 KB (1,678 words) - 14:35, 20 April 2024
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    name of “rattlebox”. These plants are used as ornamentals due to their graceful shape and beautiful red flowers. It can easily be grown from seeds, which...
    12 KB (1,305 words) - 11:38, 12 December 2023
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    Ball (redirect from Ball shape)
    athletic exercises, as a means of keeping the body supple, and rendering it graceful, but were generally left to boys and girls. Of regular rules for the playing...
    13 KB (1,566 words) - 14:44, 17 June 2024
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    Rhyton (category Ancient Greek pot shapes)
    such as libation, or merely at table. A rhyton is typically formed in the shape of an animal's head. Items were produced over large areas of ancient Eurasia...
    18 KB (1,888 words) - 21:31, 15 November 2023
  • cutting tools with long handles for mowing large amounts of hay. The graceful shape of the scythes of the late 18th and early 19th centuries hinted at the...
    10 KB (1,293 words) - 20:27, 28 January 2024
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    breakthrough was his success in having light, strong wood bent into curved, graceful shapes by forming the wood in hot steam. This enabled him to design entirely...
    12 KB (1,505 words) - 15:15, 24 May 2024
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    In physical cosmology, the graceful exit problem refers to an inherent flaw in the initial proposal of the inflationary universe theory proposed by Alan...
    3 KB (335 words) - 11:08, 13 February 2024
  • a very steep, rocky hill, overlooking a valley of great beauty and graceful shape. The sides of the hills were covered with the most brilliant verdure...
    2 KB (307 words) - 02:04, 7 April 2021
  • Thumbnail for Keshcarrigan Bowl
    feature of the bowl is its cast bronze zoomorphic handle, following the graceful shape of a bird-beast head of a somewhat nondescript appearance influenced...
    9 KB (1,097 words) - 12:34, 11 April 2023
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