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2. Bed skirt - Wikipedia

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   A bed skirt, sometimes spelled bedskirt, a bed ruffle, a dust ruffle in North America, a valance, [1] or a valance sheet in the British Isles, is a piece of decorative fabric that is placed between the mattress and the box spring of a bed that extends to the floor around the sides.

3. Farthingale - Wikipedia

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   A farthingale is one of several structures used under Western European women's clothing - especially in the 16th and 17th centuries - to support the skirts in the desired shape and to enlarge the lower half of the body. The fashion originated in Spain in the fifteenth century. Farthingales served important social and cultural functions for ...

4. Hook-and-loop fastener - Wikipedia

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   Hook-and-loop fasteners, commonly known as Velcro (a genericized trademark), hook-and-pile fasteners or touch fasteners are versatile fastening devices that allow two surfaces to be repeatedly attached and detached with ease. Invented in the mid-20th century, they are widely used in clothing, accessories, and various industrial and consumer ...

5. Headboard (furniture) - Wikipedia

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   Constructed to create space from the wall (via thicker end pillars), they allowed falling colder air to sink to the floor rather than onto the bed. [ 1 ] Today, in better heated and insulated residences, headboards chiefly serve an aesthetic function, as well as minor practical functions, such as keeping pillows from falling off the bed.

6. Skirt (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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   Bed skirt, a piece of decorative fabric that is placed between the mattress and the box spring of a bed; Piston skirt: the lower part of the curved surface of a piston in a piston engine, below the grooves for piston rings; Skirt, the part of a hovercraft that inflates with air allowing the craft to hover; Skirt steak, a cut of beef steak

7. OpenAI confirms plans to become a for-profit company as it ...

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   OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said that his company was made “unusual” on purpose. Now, that unusualness is getting in the way of raising more money from investors.