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  • 51Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group — Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck is a Stuttgart based publishing holding company which owns publishing companies worldwide. Holtzbrinck has published everything from Salman Rushdie s Satanic Verses to classics by Agatha Christie, Jean Paul… …

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  • 52Sybil Andrews — (19 April 1898 December 1993) was a British born (Bury St Edmunds) Canadian printmaker best known for her modernist linocuts.Sybil trained in England , and began producing and exhibiting linocuts in the 1920s until 1939, working frequently with… …

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  • 53Alvier — Infobox River river name = Alvier caption = origin = Brandnertal in Vorarlberg mouth = Ill basin countries = length = 13 km elevation = mouth elevation = discharge = watershed = The Alvier River is a mountain stream in Vorarlberg and flows… …

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  • 54brail — 1) a form of dip net used to lift fish out of a purse seine or other net on board ship. Also called brailer 2) to use a brail 3) a stick attached to the outer end of the wing of a trawl or haul seine to keep …

    Dictionary of ichthyology

  • 55barbotine — /bahr beuh teen /, n. a thin clay paste for making ceramic decorations in low relief. [1860 65; < F, equiv. to barbot(er) to dabble, splash about (of a duck, etc.) + ine INE2] * * * …

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  • 56La Dolce vita —    Film. Directed by Federico Fellini in 1959, released in 1960. The most renowned Italian art film of the 1960s, La dolce vita was Fellini s acerbic, if rather fascinated, take on the glamorous, media soaked, but ultimately empty lifestyle that&#8230; …

    Guide to cinema

  • 57La Dolce vita —    Film. Directed by Federico Fellini in 1959, released in 1960. The most renowned Italian art film of the 1960s, La dolce vita was Fellini s acerbic, if rather fascinated, take on the glamorous, media soaked, but ultimately empty lifestyle that&#8230; …

    Historical dictionary of Italian cinema

  • 58poodle — [19] The ancestor of the modern poodle was a water dog, used probably in the hunting of water fowl – very different from the effete toy variety of today. Its name reflects its aquatic origins: in German it is pudelhund, the first element (a&#8230; …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 59slosh — 1814, slush, sludge, probably a blend of slush and slop in its M.E. sense of muddy place. The verb meaning to splash about in mud or wet is from 1844. Meaning to pour carelessly is recorded from 1875. Sloshed drunk is recorded from c.1900 …

    Etymology dictionary

  • 60dabble — I. v. a. Wet, spatter, sprinkle, moisten, dip, soak. II. v. n. 1. Play in water, splash about. 2. Work superficially, make slight efforts, fritter away time. 3. Tamper, meddle, take liberties …

    New dictionary of synonyms