as: "A flatish [sic] stone, of very great bulk, with a square hole or mortaise, in the centre, wherein was let the foot of the upright stone or tenon...
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something is fitted to form a joint", comes from c. 1400 from Old French 'mortaise' (13th century), possibly from Arabic 'murtazz', "fastened", past participle...
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Manson as Helga 28 "The Mortaise Fair" Lawrence Huntingdon Leslie Poynton 30 March 1957 (1957-03-30) While visiting Mortaise Castle, Queen Guinevere is...
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The inhabitants of the commune are known as Aigues-Mortais or Aigues-Mortaises in French. The Occitan Aigas Mortas is equivalent to toponymic types in...
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sont constituées de montant en bois de frêne ou de hêtre, assembles par mortaises, tenons et chevilles » Musée de l'Aventure Peugeot. The exhibit label...
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navale antique: de l'assemblage par ligatures à l'assemblage par tenons et mortaises [An example of the evolution of ancient shipbuilding techniques: from...
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