A lunette (French lunette, 'little moon') is a half-moon–shaped architectural space, variously filled with sculpture, painted, glazed, filled with recessed...
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Look up lunette in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A lunette is a moon-shaped architectural detail. Lunette may also refer to: Lunette (fortification)...
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In fortification, a lunette was originally an outwork of half-moon shape; later it became a redan with short flanks, in trace somewhat resembling a bastion...
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A lunette, or lunula, is an liturgical item used by in the Catholic Church for the exposition of the Host. The lunette takes the form of a flat, circular...
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Lunette Peak is located on the border of Alberta and British Columbia on the SE side of Mount Assiniboine along the Continental Divide. It was named in...
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The lunette spatial region in the upper portion of stelas, became common for stelas as a prelude to a stele's topic.[clarification needed] Its major use...
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The lunettes of Trois-Châtels and Tousey are two lunettes located in the French city of Besançon. Their foundations were constructed in 1792 to support...
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Tow hitch (redirect from Lunette ring)
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The Musée de la Lunette is a museum of eyeglasses located in Morez (Jura - Franche-Comté), France. It was formerly located in Paris, with the name Musée...
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bed are the "Walls of China," a series of crescent-shaped sand dunes or lunettes, up to 40m in height, that stretch for more than 33 km, where most archaeological...
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Arago telescope (redirect from Lunette Arago)
Arago telescope (Lunette Arago) is a 38 cm (15 inch) aperture refracting telescope at Paris Observatory, installed in 1857. Francois Arago ordered this...
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The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun (redirect from La Dame dans l'auto avec des lunettes et un fusil)
The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun may refer to: The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun (novel), a mystery-thriller novel by Sebastien Japrisot...
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lunette Detail of the Asa, Jehosaphat and Joram lunette Detail from the Eleazar lunette Detail of the Ezechias lunette Detail of the Salmon lunette Above...
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Meudon Great Refractor (redirect from Grande Lunette)
Meudon Great Refractor (also known as the Grande Lunette) is a double telescope with lenses (83 cm + 62 cm), in Meudon, France. It is a twin refracting...
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mausoleum is covered with rich mosaics. The inside contains two famous mosaic lunettes, and the rest of the interior is filled with mosaics of Christian and Apocalyptic...
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qualities. Nahshon is depicted as one of the ancestors of Christ in a lunette in the Sistine Chapel, where a youthful Nahshon is shown wearing a red...
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List of Gargoyles characters (redirect from Lunette (Gargoyles))
Una. Pog – A hippogriff-type gargoyle who is the clan's eldest member. Lunette – A winged unicorn-type gargoyle. She is Leo and Una's daughter who was...
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anniversary model; Lunette Verte (Green Bezel) 114060 2012–2020 No date 116610LN 2010 - 2020 Lunette Noir (Black Bezel) 116610LV 2010 - 2020 Lunette Verte (Green...
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Lunette in the Sistine Chapel of Salmon with Boaz and Obed....
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A fanlight is a form of lunette window, often semicircular or semi-elliptical in shape, with glazing bars or tracery sets radiating out like an open fan...
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used as part of a pivot or hinge. Other applications include pintle and lunette ring for towing, and pintle pins securing casters in furniture. Pintle/gudgeon...
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Dune (redirect from Lunette (geology))
regions in response to the direction (s) of prevailing winds, are known as lunettes, source-bordering dunes, bourrelets and clay dunes. They may be composed...
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window is an arched shape, referred to as a lunette. Above each of the eight most central side lunettes is a triangular spandrel (topped by symmetrical...
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the stele match those at the threshold of the temple. The scene in the lunette shows Thutmose IV on the left and right making offerings and libations...
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Abihud Lunette in the Sistine Chapel of Abihud with Zerubbabel and Eliakim. Children Eliakim Parent Zerubbabel...
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1971. Pleistocene salinities and climatic change: Evidence from lakes and lunettes in southeastern Australia. In: Mulvaney, D.J. and Golson, J. (eds), Aboriginal...
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Delémont, Switzerland. He became a journalist and founded Le Crapaud à lunettes in 1964, a magazine for children. In 1967, Job met Derib and hired him...
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created a line of sunglasses for fashion brand Moncler called "Moncler Lunettes". In 2014, Williams entered a long-term partnership with Adidas.[better source needed]...
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names Alternative spelling Latin: Lūna Variant form(s) Louna, Luneth, Lunetta, Lunette, Lunneta, Lunara, Loona Derived Moon Related names Altalune, Runa...
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engraved lunette adorns the upper third of the steles; the engravings and hieroglyphs are all incised in moderate sunken bas relief. The lunette focusses...
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