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Some of the soldiers' chatter, including D-Day codewords, may thus have been heard and learnt by some of the schoolboys. Dawe had developed a habit of saving his crossword-compiling work time by calling boys into his study to fill crossword blanks with words; afterwards Dawe would provide clues for those words.
Antoni Gaudí i Cornet[ 3] ( / ɡaʊˈdi / gow-DEE, / ˈɡaʊdi / GOW-dee, Catalan: [ənˈtɔni ɣəwˈði]; [ 4] 25 June 1852 – 10 June 1926) was a Catalan architect and designer from Spain, known as the greatest exponent of Catalan Modernism. [ 5] Gaudí's works have a highly individualized, sui generis style. Most are located in Barcelona ...
Needlework was an important fact of women's identity during the Victorian age, including embroidery, netting, knitting, crochet, and Berlin wool work. A growing middle class had more leisure time than ever before; printed materials offered homemakers thousands of patterns.
Cryptic crossword clues consist typically of a definition and some type of word play. Cryptic crossword clues need to be viewed two ways. One is a surface reading and one a hidden meaning. [26] The surface reading is the basic reading of the clue to look for key words and how those words are constructed in the clue. The second way is the hidden ...
See media help. Sir Grayson Perry CBE RA Hon FRIBA (born 24 March 1960) is an English contemporary artist, writer and broadcaster. He is known for his ceramic vases, tapestries, [ 1] and cross-dressing, as well as his observations of the contemporary arts scene, and for dissecting British "prejudices, fashions and foibles". [ 2]
Embroidery stitch. An illustration of the buttonhole stitch. In everyday language, a stitch in the context of embroidery or hand- sewing is defined as the movement of the embroidery needle from the back of the fibre to the front side and back to the back side. [ 1] The thread stroke on the front side produced by this is also called stitch.
The abbreviation is not always a short form of the word used in the clue. For example: "Knight" for N (the symbol used in chess notation) Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE.
Ukrainian embroidery was an everyday art in the common people's lives until the 19th century, when it became more of a craft . Embroidery was mostly used for the decoration of clothing and fabrics and for the decoration of homes and churches. [ 2] Embroidered products, especially a rushnyk, are greatly symbolic for a series of ceremonies and ...