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Art Word of the Day: Voussoirs
Term: Voussoirs Definition: The wedge-shaped stones which form the curved portions of an arch or a vaulted ceiling. (pr. voo-swahr')Related link: The illustrated article on voussoir in the Glossary of
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Music Word of the Day: Russian bassoon
Term: Russian bassoon Definition: upright, now obsolete instrument with brass bellA form of serpent or bass horn with a U-shaped section of tube fashioned in a single piece of wood like the butt of a bassoon
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Art Word of the Day: Teaspoon
Term: Teaspoon Definition: A unit of measure of both liquid and dry quantities that is equal to a third of a tablespoon. To convert teaspoons to ounces (US, fluid), multiply by 0.16667. Abbreviated t.
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Art Word of the Day: Riffler
Term: Riffler Definition: A fine, small, usually double-edged and often rounded rasp. The riffler is used in delicate shaping and finishing of a carving. Rifflers are made for work in wood, metal, and
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Art Word of the Day: Aqueous
Term: Aqueous Definition: Watery. Often used to designate pigmented media in which water is an ingredient in the vehicle, as in gouache, tempera, and watercolors. Such media are water-soluble.Also see
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Art Word of the Day: Index
Term: Index Definition: A recording of an event produced by a connection between an object and its role in the event. In semiotics, as presented by Charles Sanders Peirce (American pragmatist, 1839-1914;
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Art Word of the Day: Obscene
Term: Obscene Definition: Offensive to accepted standards of decency or modesty. Lewd. Or, more broadly, repulsive or offensive to the senses. Obscenity is the state or quality of being obscene.Also see
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Art Word of the Day: Canvas
Term: Canvas Definition: A heavy, woven fabric used for support for artwork, usually oil paintings, and considered desirable by painters because of the regular texture and flexibility. The negative is
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Art Word of the Day: Decadent art
Term: Decadent art Definition: A derogatory term for expressions of artists and writers of the Aesthetic Movement in England in the last two decades of the 19th Century, it was directed against people
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Art Word of the Day: Mail art
Term: Mail art Definition: Small-scale art whose senders used the U.S. Mail for distribution, it consists of envelopes that are drawn or painted on or contain collages or the like, on which there may be
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Music Word of the Day: Se
Term: Se Definition: In solfeggio, Se is the lowered fifth, indicating the seventh tone of the descending chromatic scale. In the " fixed Do " system, Se is always G-flat. Music Word of the Day
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Art Word of the Day: Achieve achievement
Term: Achieve achievement Definition: To achieve is to accomplish; to perform with success; to attain with effort or despite difficulty. Achievement is either the act of accomplishing or the thing
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Art Word of the Day: Tracing
Term: Tracing Definition: Making a drawing by referring to an image visible underneath it. Tracing paper is made translucent for this purpose. While artists sometimes use tracing simply as a means of copying
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Art Word of the Day: Binder
Term: Binder Definition: A substance mixed with pigment, it holds raw pigment in such a way that it becomes workable in a painting medium. Its purpose is to weld the pigment granules into some sort of
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Music Word of the Day: Guard mounting
Term: Guard mounting Definition: A military bugle call, in the category of warning calls, played to signal a warning that the guard is about to be assembled for guard mount.Play Guard Mounting - Music
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Art Word of the Day: Sevres porcelain sevres porcelain factory
Term: Sevres porcelain sevres porcelain factory Definition: Named for a French word for paste, both hard and soft, Sevres Porcelain was made from 1756, first at Vincennes and then at the royal factory
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Music Word of the Day: Alto horn
Term: Alto horn Definition: A small valved Brass instrument in the key of E -flat related to various members of the brass family. Rarely used in modern ensembles as it was replaced by other instruments.
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Art Word of the Day: Lumiere technology
Term: Lumiere technology Definition: A multi-spectral digitization technology, it derives from a camera developed by the French photographer Pascal Cotte. This LT camera projects a ray of light across
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Art Word of the Day: Logan medal of the arts
Term: Logan medal of the arts Definition: Named for Jsephine Hancock Logan, founder of the Society for Sanity in Art, it is awarded to exhibiting members of the Society of Western Art, a branch of the
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Art Word of the Day: Quatrefoilquatrefoil
Term: Quatrefoilquatrefoil Definition: An ornament, especially in architecture, having four lobes, or foils. In heraldry, a four-petaled flower.(pr. KAH-trə-foyl)Related link: The Glossary of Medieval
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