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2. Casket (decorative box) - Wikipedia

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   A casket [1] is a decorative box or container that is usually smaller than a chest and is typically decorated. In recent centuries they are often used as boxes for jewelry, but in earlier periods they were also used for keeping important documents and many other purposes. [2] Many ancient caskets are reliquaries, for both Buddhist and Christian ...

3. Decorative box - Wikipedia

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   Boxes made for the poorer snuff taker were more ordinary; popular and cheap boxes were made in papier-mâché and even potato-pulp, which made durable boxes that kept the snuff in good condition. Alloys that resembled gold or silver were developed in the 18th and 19th centuries such as the ersatz gold Pinchbeck and the silver look-alike ...

4. Limoges Box - Wikipedia

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   The first Limoges trinket boxes were long narrow containers that were created for expensive needles. From here, other shapes of limoges porcelain boxes evolved. The earliest were those that held thimbles and embroidery scissors and then round flat Limoges boxes were formed and used as powder boxes, and/or snuff boxes. Under Louis XIV these ...

5. Miner's figure - Wikipedia

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   When their long shift was over the moon was already in the sky. In order to light the way for their menfolk in the dark winter's night, the women placed the Light Miner (Lichterbergmann) and the Light Angel (Lichterengel), as the figures were called, in the windows. The angel became a symbolic figure for the pious mining folk of the Ore Mountains.

6. Angel hair (folklore) - Wikipedia

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   Angel hair, siliceous cotton, or Mary's yarn is a sticky, fibrous substance reported in connection with UFO sightings, or manifestations of the Virgin Mary. [1] [2] It has been described as being like a cobweb or a jelly. [3] [4] [5] It is named for its similarity to fine hair, and in some cases, the substance has been found to be the web ...

7. Feather tights - Wikipedia

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   England, 15th century Southern Germany, c. 1530. Feather tights is the name usually given by art historians to a form of costume seen on Late Medieval depictions of angels, which shows them as if wearing a body suit with large scale-like, overlapping, downward-pointing elements representing feathers, as well as having large wings.