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A light cape or short cloak of silk or lace worn by women in summer.

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  • CARTEL
    An agreement between belligerents for the exchange of prisoners. Wilhelm. 2. A letter of defiance or challenge; a challenge to single combat. He is cowed at the very idea of a cartel., Sir W. Scott. Cartel, or Cartel ship, a ship employed in the
  • CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
    A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the
  • EFFIGY
    The image, likeness, or representation of a person, whether a full figure, or a part; an imitative figure; -- commonly applied to sculptured likenesses, as those on monuments, or to those of the heads of princes on coins and medals, sometimes
  • CARTE DE VISITE
    1. A visiting card. 2. A photographic picture of the size formerly in use for a visiting card.
  • SIMILITUDE
    1. The quality or state of being similar or like; resemblance; likeness; similarity; as, similitude of substance. Chaucer. Let us make now man in our image, man In our similitude. Milton. If fate some future bard shall join In sad similitude of
  • CARTESIAN
    Of or pertaining to the French philosopher René Descartes, or his philosophy. The Cartesion argument for reality of matter. Sir W. Hamilton. Cartesian coördinates , distance of a point from lines or planes; -- used in a system of representing
  • CARTER
    1. A charioteer. Chaucer. 2. A man who drives a cart; a teamster. Any species of Phalangium; -- also called harvestman. A British fish; the whiff.
  • PICTURESQUISH
    Somewhat picturesque.
  • PORTRAITURE
    1. A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or model. For, by the image of my cause, I see The portraiture of his. Shak. Divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of
  • CARTESIANISM
    The philosophy of Descartes.
  • IMAGERY
    1. The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects; imitation work; images in general, or in mass. "Painted imagery." Shak. In those oratories might you see Rich carvings, portraitures, and imagery. Dryden. 2. Fig.: Unreal
  • CARTE
    1. Bill of fare. 2. Short for Carte de visite.
  • CARTE QUARTE
    A position in thrusting or parrying, with the inside of the hand turned upward and the point of the weapon toward the adversary's right breast.
  • PICTURER
    One who makes pictures; a painter. Fuller.
  • IMAGER
    One who images or forms likenesses; a sculptor. Praxiteles was ennobled for a rare imager. Holland.
  • REPRESENTATIONARY
    Implying representation; representative.
  • PICTURE
    1. The art of painting; representation by painting. Any well-expressed image . . . either in picture or sculpture. Sir H. Wotton. 2. A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, produced
  • IMAGELESS
    Having no image. Shelley.
  • IMITATION
    One of the principal means of securing unity and consistency in polyphonic composition; the repetition of essentially the same melodic theme, phrase, or motive, on different degrees of pitch, by one or more of the other parts of voises. Cf. Canon.
  • PICTURESQUE
    Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture; representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate to a picture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial; graphic; vivid; as,
  • INCORRESPONDENCE; INCORRESPONDENCY
    Want of correspondence; disagreement; disproportion.
  • DEPICTURE
    To make a picture of; to paint; to picture; to depict. Several persons were depictured in caricature. Fielding.
  • FISSIPARITY
    Quality of being fissiparous; fissiparism.
  • LIVING PICTURE
    A tableau in which persons take part; also, specif., such a tableau as imitating a work of art.
  • IMPICTURED
    Pictured; impressed. Spenser.
  • VERISIMILITUDE
    The quality or state of being verisimilar; the appearance of truth; probability; likelihood. Verisimilitude and opinion are an easy purchase; but true knowledge is dear and difficult. Glanvill. All that gives verisimilitude to a narrative. Sir.
  • DISPARITY
    Inequality; difference in age, rank, condition, or excellence; dissimilitude; -- followed by between, in, of, as to, etc.; as, disparity in, or of, years; a disparity as to color. The disparity between God and his intelligent creatures. I. Taylor.
  • DELIMITATION
    The act or process of fixing limits or boundaries; limitation. Gladstone.
  • WARLIKENESS
    Quality of being warlike.
  • MOTION PICTURE
    A moving picture.
  • ILLIMITATION
    State of being illimitable; want of, or freedom from, limitation. Bp. Hall.
  • OMNIPARITY
    Equality in every part; general equality.

 

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