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ARABESQUE, a word meaning simply " Arabian," but technically used for a certain form of decorative design in flowing lines intertwined; hence comes the more metaphorical use of this word, whether in nature or in morals, indicating a fantastic or complicated in ...

... d as of old from the Loire to the Pyrenees, but its extent was curtailed on the ARABESQUE— ARABGIR •oulh cast by the wide land* of the count* of Toulouse. The name ('•uirnnr, a corruption of Aquitaine, seem* to have come into use about the loth century, and th ...

... or his captives, and when allusiveness left a corner vacant, it was filled with arabesques in ebony or ivory, in brass or white metal. While the royal palaces and the h&tels of the great nobility were filled with those costly splendours, the ordinary cabinetma ...