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swag 1. an ornamental festoon of fruit, flowers, or drapery or a representation of this 2. Midland English dialect a depression filled with water, resulting from mining subsidence
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The facades of the 27-story office tower, which are detailed with swags, wreaths, lion heads and frets, are clad in Vermont granite, and defined by Ionic colonnades and Doric columns that recall the Athenian Parthenon. It has the commonplace white tapers and swags of crystals, but also gold-leaf griffin figures, a large star-adorned globe in the center, and a crystal bowl suspended beneath it. After ascending a flight of stairs to the foundation's galleries in the eighteenth-century Palazzetto Tito, I encountered a long room filled with generous swags of drapery, three crystal chandeliers, twelve small, spotlit paintings (whose subjects amble the gamut from a fox with his quarry to a portrait of L. |
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