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TOILE ROUE [3 records]

Record 1 2006-10-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electric Rotary Machines - Types
  • Wind Energy
DEF

A windmill blade consisting of a sail cloth stretched around a tubular leading edge and a cable trailing edge.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Machines tournantes électriques - types
  • Énergie éolienne
DEF

Pale de moulin éolien formée d’une toile déployée à partir d’un bord d’attaque tubulaire jusqu’à un câble faisant office de bord de fuite.

CONT

Roue de trois pales en toile; rotor fait de trois voiles en dacron.

OBS

volant : Aile de moulin à vent.

Spanish

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Record 2 1996-07-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Trucking (Road Transport)
  • Braking Systems (Motor Vehicles and Bicycles)
DEF

Brake hose equipped with threaded metal end fittings which connects a rigid brake line attached to the chassis frame to a wheel-brake cylinder.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Camionnage
  • Freins (Véhicules automobiles et bicyclettes)
DEF

Dispositif souple en caoutchouc toilé et muni d’embouts métalliques filetés, servant à réunir un cylindre de roue et une canalisation de frein rigide fixée au cadre de châssis.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Transporte por camión
  • Frenos (Vehículos automotores y bicicletas)
DEF

Tubo flexible de goma laminada con bandas metálicas de rosca interior que une la tubería rígida de freno del chasis a un cilindro de la rueda.

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Record 3 1993-10-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Underwear
CONT

About 1545 appeared the farthingale ... a petticoat reinforced by a series of graduated hoops of cane, whalebone, or wire. Its shape was that of a cone. The material ... was woollen, silk, satin, or velvet, usually of a brilliant colour. Fifty yards of whalebone might be used, in addition to buckram. (The History of Underclothes, 1951, p. 50).

CONT

farthingale worn, with rigid lowcut bodice, small ruffles, starched, fanlike collars with fancy edges. (This is Fashion, 1943, p. 130).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Lingerie
CONT

Mode espagnole de la fin du XVe s. introduite en France au XVIe s. Jupon de grosse toile tendue sur de gros fils de fer qui soutenait les jupes.(vertugadin en entonnoir) Au buste triangulaire long, [...] on ajoute en un temps le vertugadin, ustensile d’osier puis de cercles de fer, qui remplaça sous Henri III, un bourrelet matelassé, et qui devint aussi envahissant qu'une roue de carrosse.(Le costume, pourquoi et comment, 1967, p. 35).

Spanish

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