Sentence example with the word 'baldric'

baldric

Definition n. a wide

Last update: July 17, 2015


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A considerable length of the toga was allowed to hang from the left shoulder; the remainder was passed round the body so as to rise like a baldric (balteus) from the right hip to the left shoulder, being folded over in front (the fold was called sinus), then brought round the back of the neck so that the end fell over the right shoulder; the hanging portion on the left side was drawn up through the sinus, and bulged out in an umbo (Plate, fig.   [Please select]

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Vigo came back with a sword and baldric for me, and a horse-pistol besides, but M.   [Please select]

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We heard him getting into his boots again and buckling on his baldric.   [Please select]

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And so I put it very carefully under the broad, golden-studded baldric of Sigurd's sword.   [Please select]

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And it would not stay there, and Etheldreda laughed at me, and took a little golden brooch like a cross that she wore, and pinned it through glove and baldric, making all safe.   [Please select]

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The blue field and the stars are taken from the sky, and the white from the milky way which stretches like a broad scarf or baldric across the heavens.   [Please select]

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