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Strewing herbs are certain kinds of plants that are scattered (strewn) over the floors of dwelling places and other buildings. Such plants usually have...

post of Herb Strewer is an obsolete position in the United Kingdom dating back to the late 17th century. The primary duty of the Herb Strewer was to distribute...

the mistake of his colleagues, spread the frozen cakes with buttercream, strewed with powder, decorated with floral ornaments.[citation needed] The recipe...

heraldic visitation of Leicestershire in 1619: "A wyvern sans legs argent strewed with wounds gules, wings expanded ermine." The term "sans legs" may not...

and Specimen Location Technique for Same-Specimen Study of Palynological Strew Mounts". Micropaleontology. 37 (4): 407–13. doi:10.2307/1485913. JSTOR 1485913...

1920s, with ticker tape seen as a modernization of the ancient ritual of strewing flowers before conquerors, it became routine to hail arriving heads-of-state...

scattered or sprinkled"), from the verb streuen (cognate with the English verb strew). Soboro-ppang Crumble food portal What Is Streusel?, wisegeek.com, Accessed...

Saladin had his guards supplied with link lights and had chalk and cinders strewed around his tent outside Masyaf—which he was besieging—to detect any footsteps...

settled in Rome, the city where her husband wrote "the meanest streets were strewed with truncated columns, broken capitals...and sparkling fragments of granite...

separation in watery solution, and then the injection of colour under pressure. Strewing herbs are scattered (strewn) over the floors of dwelling places and other...

times, this practice has been revived, and adapted as well, to include the strewing of origami doves from above or suspending them, sometimes by the hundreds...

Val-hall for slain people. I aroused the Einheriar, bade them get up to strew the benches, clean the beer-cups, the valkyries to serve wine for the arrival...

plague: "like Juggernaut, she proceeds crushing out the being of all who strew the high road of life". Charles Dickens used the term in The Life and Adventures...

personal life; he later said that he wanted to focus on music and "not really strew my baggage across the public lobby". Eventually, however, he decided the...

Veterans Affairs, credits Mary Ann Williams with originating the "idea of strewing the graves of Civil War soldiers—Union and Confederate" with flowers. Official...

Plato, the Athenians periodically honored the god called Plouton with the "strewing of a couch" (tên klinên strôsai). At Eleusis, Plouton had his own priestess...

for the open fields to the north and east, "which for many miles were strewed with moveables of all sorts, and tents erecting to shelter both people...

Saladin had his guards supplied with link lights and had chalk and cinders strewed around his tent outside Masyaf—which he was besieging—to detect any footsteps...

In ritual and other formalities, veve is usually drawn on the floor by strewing a powder-like substance, commonly cornmeal, wheat flour, bark, red brick...

Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico Cocido, a traditional Spanish and Portuguese strew with many variants (madrileño, montañés, à portuguesa, etc.) Cotriade, a...