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pannier
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pannier [′panĀ·yər]
(engineering)

pannier
Any basketlike architectural member, once especially applied to capitals resembling baskets.


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Dancers have been decorated throughout time with tattoos on the naked skin, billowing tunics lit with colored lights, grass skirts, panniered and hooped skirts, stiletto heels, towering Cambodian crowns, large tubes, and all manner of fashions of the day.
Naturally she has paid close attention to her immensely panniered sea-green dress and the long stomacher of roseate buckles which clasps the narrow span of her waist.
Shorter classical tutus, perhaps remnants of the Baroque panniered and bustled court gowns that forced a port de bras higher and farther from the body, allowed for freer leg action (even though photos of this style made skinny-legged, long-necked, small-headed ballerinas look vaguely reminiscent of ostriches).
 
 
 
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