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    In medieval castles the chemise (French: "shirt") was typically a low wall encircling the keep, protecting the base of the tower. Alternative terms, more...
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    electronic "wall" to log the scrawls of friends until it was replaced by the "timeline" feature. Ashlar Chemise (wall) Clay panel Climbing wall Crinkle crankle...
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    Henry replaced the keep with another stone shell keep and chemise wall, but moved the walls in from the edge of the motte to relieve the pressure on the...
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  • photo of HMS Campbeltown after the St Nazaire Raid before she exploded. Chemise (wall) Pavise Gabion Testudo formation Popular Science. Bonnier Corporation...
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    defended from the high hillside on the west by a chemise wall which has been fortified to form a shield wall 2.6 m thick. There is an interior stairway, which...
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    side, to which were attached two other towers and a partial mantlet or chemise wall. At the north-west corner is a twin square-towered gatehouse with another...
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  • "Tomber la chemise" (English: literally "Take Off Your Shirt" but the meaning is "Get ready to play hard") is a 1998 song by the Toulousian collective...
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    Octagonal turrets on the chemise and caponiers at ground level provided flanking fire around the tower. It is unclear whether the chemise was part of the original...
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    churidars. Origin: From Arabic qamīṣ, perhaps from late Latin camisia (see chemise). Platts, John Thompson (February 2015) [1884], A dictionary of Urdu, classical...
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  • Thumbnail for Embrasure
    embrasures were constructed in towers and walls. A loophole, arrow loop or arrowslit passes through a solid wall, and thus forms an embrasure of shooting...
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    introducing in 1957 the fuller but tapering "sack/sac dress," also called the chemise dress, soon copied by Christian Dior for his 1957 Fuseau/Spindle line....
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    outright by Swiss family-held group Maus Frères. René Lacoste founded La Chemise Lacoste in 1933 with André Gillier, the owner and president of the largest...
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    'Bears' Assert Their Roots". The Wall Street Journal Europe. Retrieved 18 December 2008. One big 1999 hit was "Tomber la Chemise" ("Take Off Your Shirt") by...
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    some leaves, some tree trunks, and, in the background, a river in which a chemise-wearing woman bathes; in the foreground, two young men are seated across...
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    ('military camp'), often used as a watchtower or signal station like on Hadrian's Wall. It is distinct from a burgus, which is a later Latin term that was used...
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  • Thumbnail for Virgin's veil
    Sancta Camisa, was not usually called a veil. It is usually described as a chemise (undergarment) or tunic, or occasionally a supparum (shawl), all garments...
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    some leaves, some tree trunks, and, in the background, a river in which a chemise-wearing woman bathes; in the foreground, two young men are seated across...
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  • Thumbnail for Motte-and-bailey castle
    around the top of the motte, sometimes protected by a further chemise, or low protective wall, around the base. By the 14th century, a number of motte and...
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    wooden palisade of the motte converted to stone, thus forming a chemise; and the outer wall of the bailey was completed in stone with flanking towers. The...
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    Gallery, London. This half-length depiction of a woman in loosened white chemise with a dark green mantle, holding some flowers, has been interpreted as...
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    horse's tail in her hand. In the poem she wore a linen sark (Scots: a short chemise or undergarment), that she had been given as a child, which explains why...
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  • to the shirt of tailoring techniques. The new kind of shirt was called chemise à pièce (yoked shirt). Alan Flusser credits Christofle Charvet with the...
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    tower Caer Caltrop Castle Chamber gate Chartaque Chashi Chemin de ronde Chemise Cheval de frise Citadel Coercion castle Concentric castle Corner tower...
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    Surtout Ulster coat Visite Witzchoura Underwear Basque Bustle Chausses Chemise Codpiece Corselet Corset Waist cincher Dickey Garter Hoop skirt Crinoline...
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    Mark-Evan Blackman of the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York told The Wall Street Journal in 2012 that the "bespoke proliferation may be tied to young...
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    Japan Blockhouse south of Le Touquet, France. It was part of the Atlantic Wall Pegler, Martin (20 August 2014). Soldiers' Songs and Slang of the Great War...
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  • Thumbnail for Hameau de la Reine
    sun hat and informal muslin dress, a Polonaise gown, or a Chemise à la Reine. The chemise, worn without panniers and with a high waistline, was first...
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    believed to have been transported to the railway arch, hidden under an old chemise. At 2:15 a.m. on 13 February 1891, PC Ernest Thompson discovered a 25-year-old...
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    — Phillip Stubbes, Anatomy of Abuses (1583) A visard recovered from inside the wall of a 16th-century building in Daventry, England. In Venice, the visard developed...
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  • Thumbnail for Ewloe Castle
    stone revetment around its base (a basic chemise). The lower outer ward is enclosed by two separate sections of wall that meet at a circular fortified tower...
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