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FLEURON [9 records]

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Record 1 2018-10-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Translation (General)
DEF

The best or most attractive item on display.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 2 2010-06-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
  • Botany
OBS

Little flower which together form a larger flower. (broccoli florets).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
  • Botanique
OBS

Chacune des petites fleurs dont la réunion forme un tout.

Spanish

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Record 3 2008-07-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ceremonial and Traditions (Military)
DEF

[A] decorative ornament [...] on the top piece of a pike, staff or pole.

Key term(s)
  • pike-head

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cérémonial et traditions (Militaire)
DEF

Pièce décorative à l'extrémité supérieure du mât ou de la hampe [...]

Spanish

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Record 4 1997-09-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
DEF

The stamens, pistil and lodiculae enclosed by the lemma and palea.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
DEF

Les étamines, le pistil et les lodicules insérés dans le lemma et le palea.

Spanish

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Record 5 1994-03-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Architecture
  • Architectural Styles
DEF

An ornament peculiar to the Gothic styles, usually resembling a leaf half opened, and projecting from the upper edge of a canopy or pyramidal covering. The term is supposed to be derived from the resemblance to a shepherd's crook.

CONT

The intricacy and delicacy of the Flamboyant crockets is extraordinary: their long wiry thistle leaves interlace and twist over and under one another in a way that speaks volumes for the ingenuity of the carver and his dexterity in stone-cutting, though in spite of all their cleverness they will not bear comparison with the simpler and broader effects of the earlier sculptors.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Architecture
  • Styles en architecture
DEF

Ornement sculpté en forme de fleur stylisée décorant le sommet d'un gâble ou d'un pignon auquel il sert d'amortissement. Les architectes médiévaux en firent grand usage à partir du XIIe siècle, ils leur donnèrent la forme de bourgeons, de fleurs ou de feuilles différemment disposés selon les époques.

CONT

Les fleurons des gâbles se perdent dans une sorte de corniche qui ondule en une ligne continue.

Spanish

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Record 6 1993-07-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant Biology
DEF

Those flowers of the head of a plant, of the family Compositae, in which the corolla is tubular, as contrasted with the marginal flowers where the corolla is ligulate or strap-shaped.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biologie végétale
DEF

Petite fleur à corolle tubuleuse qui occupe le centre des capitules dans les plantes de la famille des composées.

OBS

Les fleurons constituent ce que l'on nomme le «disque».

Key term(s)
  • disque

Spanish

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Record 7 1992-02-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Heraldry
DEF

An ornamental terminating or capping feature on an upper extremity, as over a door or on a pinnacle or gable.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Héraldique
DEF

Ornement isolé, en forme de fleur stylisée, décorant le sommet d'un gâble, d'un pignon, auquel il sert d'amortissement ...

Spanish

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Record 8 1986-04-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Symbols, Motifs and Ornaments (Arts)
DEF

a flower-shaped motif, used as an architectural ornament, a coin device, and a printers' flower.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Symboles, motifs et ornements (Arts)
DEF

Ornement en forme de fleur.

Spanish

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Record 9 1975-03-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Typesetting and Imagesetting
DEF

An ornament in the shape of a small flower or leaf, used in binding or printing.

DEF

The word "flowers" is used as a general term to include decorative motifs cast on type body as distinct from vignettes and from borders (both plain and decorative) cast as strips of metal rule.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Composition (Imprimerie)
DEF

Petit ornement typographique, en forme de fleur ou de feuille, qu'on place en tête ou en fin de chapitre ou qu'on utilise dans les travaux de ville.

Spanish

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