Rim Of Morning Flashcards
Porte-cochere
an entrance or gateway to a building large enough to permit a coach to be driven through it into the interior courtyard beyond.
The Winged Victory
Winged Victory of Samothrace, or the Niké of Samothrace,[2] is a votive monument originally discovered on the island of Samothrace in the northeastern Aegean Sea. It is a masterpiece of Greek sculpture from the Hellenistic era, dating from the beginning of the 2nd century BC (190 BC). It is composed of a statue representing the goddess Niké (Victory), whose head and arms are missing and its base is in the shape of a ship’s bow.
hurricane lamp
an oil lamp with a glass chimney, designed to protect the flame even in high winds.
White Rock
A US brand of selzer
Lily cups
vintage drinking cups
Phi Beta Kappa
Oldest academic honor society in the USA
unregenerate
not reforming or showing repentance
“the most unregenerate and irredeemable people you could ever imagine”
bull session
an informal, impromptu discussion, esp. in a small group
Leopold and Loeb
wo American students at the University of Chicago who kidnapped and murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in Chicago, Illinois, United States, on May 21, 1924.
oxide
a binary compound of oxygen with another element
thermite
a mixture of aluminum powder and a metal oxide (such as iron oxide) that when ignited evolves a great deal of heat and is used in welding and in incendiary bombs
Abyssinia
former name for Ethiopia
calcined
reduced, oxidized, or desiccated by roasting or exposing to strong heat.
“in some cases only calcined bones were left to tell that human beings had ever been there”
cretonne [cree-tohn]
any printed fabric, usually cotton, of the weight used chiefly for furniture upholstery, hangings, window drapery, and other comparatively heavy-duty household purposes. The fabric is similar to chintz but has a dull finish. The finer and lighter textures of cretonnes are made into smocks and other garments for women and children.
Morris chair
an early type of reclining chair
bridge lamp
a small floor lamp usually with an adjustable arm
Mademoiselle from Armentières
an English song that was particularly popular during World War I.
intaglio
the family of printing and printmaking techniques in which the image is incised into a surface and the incised line or sunken area holds the ink.
It is the direct opposite of a relief print
mezzotint (met-zo-tint)
monochrome printmaking process of the intaglio family. It was the first printing process that yielded half-tones without using line- or dot-based techniques like hatching, cross-hatching or stipple.
Judgement of Paris
Paris awarded a golden apple to Aphrodite in return for the world’s most beautiful woman, Helen of Troy. This was the mythological basis of the Trojan War.
epithet
In Greek Mythology, used to describe a specific characteristic of a deity, e.g. Pallas Athene
House of Borgia
descendants of a noble line, originally from Valencia, Spain, that established roots in Italy and became prominent in ecclesiastical and political affairs in the 1400s and 1500s.
dentils
(in classical architecture) one of a number of small, rectangular blocks resembling teeth and used as a decoration under the soffit of a cornice.
