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Gaine

A decorative pedestal, taking the place of a column, tapered downward and rectangular in cross section, forming the lower part of a herm, on which a human bust is mounted; often with a capital above.

gaine

A decorative pedestal, esp. one tapered downward and square in section. Also see estípite.
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Mr Thomas knew that the other man was a Thai boxer so took Gaine outside to defuse the situation.
Boxing champ vandalised his coach's house after pub clash
Gaine, C 2001, "If it's not hurting it's not working': teaching teachers about 'race", Research Papers in Education, vol.
Metaphoric representations of women of colour in the academy: teaching race, disrupting power
Behrings had worked on desalination project with Gaine, an aquaculture biologist who worked at Rutgers' Multispecies Aquaculture Demonstration Center in Cape May.
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2007, << Beyond Play: A New Approach to Gaines >>, Games and Culture 2 (2) : 95-113.
Le jeu comme producteur culturel: distinction entre la notion et la fonction de jeu
un coffre de Boulle a tombeaux sur son pied a gaine de marqueterie de bronzes dores, prise 700 livres' (Archives nationales, Paris, minutier central des notaires, etude XLII/543).
A connoisseur's eye: George Byng's boulle furniture: the politician George Byng was an astute collector, well-placed to take advantage of the art market after the Napoleonic wars. Charles Cator and Alexandre Pradere introduce a pair of coffers and a cabinet-on-stand bought by Byng, masterpieces that can be securely attributed to Andre-Charles Boulle
A gaine of show and tell contributes to a realistic conception of society and to a new way of writing of what is knowable (132-33).
Massol, Chantal. Une Poetique de l'enigme: Le Recit hermeneutique balzacien
9 N 12035 28788 3359 115500 Hill Dalit: Kami, Sarki, Damai, Badi, Gaine.
Haruwa, the unfree agricultural labourer: a case study from Eastern Tarai
Gaine WJ, Sanville PR, Bamford DJ: The Charnley-Hastings bipolar prosthesis in femoral neck fractures: A study of dynamic motion.
Bipolar head design: inner bearing range of motion and disassociation
Only the hockey gaine can be heard as CARRIE clears up papers, JAMIE glowers from dining room table, and ELLEN clears up cans and cups.
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It had taken almost two decades to recover from the deficit left by President Ronald Reagan but now the country was ahead of the gaine.
The democratic ideal versus the State of the Union
2]) is located in MC's Gaine Hunting Area (GHA) 26 with the centre being at approximately latitude 50[degrees] 50' 26" and longitude 95[degrees] 30' 30".
Response of a wintering moose population to access management and no hunting--a Manitoba experiment
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