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dimity

[′dim·əd·ē]

(textiles)

Sheer fabric with lengthwise cords or checks formed by bunching two, three, or more warp and filling threads together; usually made of combed cotton.

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Edward Elgar, 2010) 431; Dimity Kingsford Smith, "Can There be a Fair Share?

Fairness in financial markets, reconceiving market norms

Dimity came up with a spirited challenge towards the finish but failed to collar the Harry Bentley ridden Missouri Spirit.

Sanna rides Mojave Desert to thrilling End Of Season Cup win

Annie, Bella, Courtney and Dimity made up the female group, Jack, Samuel, Matthew and Nick made up the male group, and Emily, Fiona, Harry and Tom made up the mixed group.

The collaborative learning behaviours of middle primary school students in a classroom music creation activity

Stephen Smallbone (1), Susan Rayment-Mchugh (2), & Dimity Smith (2)

Youth sexual offending: context, good-enough lives, and engaging with a wider prevention agenda

It is because the Dutch face a double whammy of hefty austerity cuts and years of declining consumer spending due to the housing market crisis, ING economist Dimity Fleming said.

Own medicine: Dutch feel pain of austerity

Willie McCreery's filly, a convincing winner over course and distance last time, looks a real speed-ball and is confidently expected to confirm earlier Cork form with John Murphy's Dimity in a race for which these two trainers are responsible for five of the six runners.

BANK ON SPEEDSTER ABBAKOVA

In June 2009, the Russian president, Dimity Medvedev, made an historic visit to Egypt, Nigeria, Namibia, and Angola, during which political and economic relations were strengthened.

The Eu's security policy towards Africa: causes, rationales, and dynamics

I'm still on a crime novel spree, but now I want real whodunits (puzzles like Agatha Christie's books) or light crime (like Donna Leon's books) or even slight crime that's more feel-good than mysterious (such as Tarquin Hall's Vish Puri books and Nancy Atherton's Aunt Dimity books - Aunt Dimity being a ghost).

Crime and Punishment

On one level, the set of essays that follows his can be read as an attempt to advance our understanding of responsive regulation in three substantive areas: tax (see the essays ofJudith Freedman and Dennis Ventry), financial regulation (the contributions of Edward Balleisen, Cristie Ford, Janis Sarra, and Dimity Kingsford Smith), and environmental regulation (with essays by Natasha Affolder and Oren Perez).

Responsive regulation in context, circa 2011

The California governor, on a trade trip to Moscow, met with Russia's president Dimity Medvedev earlier.

Schwarzenegger praises "gold mine" Russia

Lehmann, Deborah, Ashwini Arumugaswamy, Dimity Elsburya, Janine Finucanea, Annette Stokes, Ruth Moncka, Christine Jeffries-Stokes, Daniel McAullay, Harvey Coates and Fiona J Stanley 2007 'The Kalgoorlie Otitis Media Research Project: rationale, methods, population characteristics and ethical considerations', Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 22:60-71, <http://onlinelibrary.

Closing the gaps in and through Indigenous health research: guidelines, processes and practices

In her letters Jane mentions fabric purchases ranging in price from dimity at 2 shillings 6 pence per yard (24 May 1813), or $11.

"I was tempted by a pretty coloured muslin": Jane Austen and the art of being fashionable