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The subject of the painting is the waterseller, a common trade for the lower classes in Velázquez's Seville.The jars and victuals recall bodegón paintings. The seller has two customers: a young boy, possibly painted from the same model as used for the boys in The Lunch and Old Woman Cooking Eggs, and a young man in the background shadows, (time has caused him to fade somewhat; he is clearer ...
George Orwell described a porrón in Homage to Catalonia: [5] …and drank out of a dreadful thing called a porron. A porron is a sort of glass bottle with a pointed spout from which a thin jet of wine spurts out whenever you tip it up; you can thus drink from a distance, without touching it with your lips, and it can be passed from hand to hand.
The Glass of Water: or, Effects and Causes (French: Le verre d’eau ou Les effets et les causes) is an 1840 five-act stage comedy by the French writer Eugène Scribe that is set at the court of Queen Anne of Great Britain during the early 18th century.
Used to describe: Water. Back in the 1930s, ordering a dog soup would get you a tall glass of good ol' water. Considering that the slang originated during the Great Depression, it makes perfect sense.
The thin-glass bottles were probably made in England, Ard added, as the Spanish did not make their own glass. "Onion bottles are free blown using a pontil," Ard said. "Each one is unique, so there ...
Czech: bouře ve sklenici vody ('a storm in a glass of water') Danish: en storm i et glas vand ('a storm in a glass of water') Dutch: een storm in een glas water ('a storm in a glass of water') Esperanto: granda frakaso en malgranda glaso ('a large storm in a small glass') Estonian: torm veeklaasis ('storm in a glass of water')
Both experts agree it’s best to store water in glass bottles with closed caps. Riese is a strong believer in glass bottles, “as glass does not give anything to water or of water, so it’s the ...
A glass harp, an ancestor of the glass armonica, being played in Rome.The rims of wine glasses filled with water are rubbed by the player's fingers to create the notes.. The name "glass harmonica" (also "glass armonica", "glassharmonica"; harmonica de verre, harmonica de Franklin, armonica de verre, or just harmonica in French; Glasharmonika in German; harmonica in Dutch) refers today to any ...