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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 ...
Part of a Scottish witch-pricking needle Needles used by street conjurers. During the height of the witch trials of the 16th and 17th centuries, common belief held that a witch could be discovered through the process of pricking their skin with needles, pins and bodkins – daggerlike instruments for drawing ribbons through hems or punching holes in cloth.
The Dutch built pinnaces during the early 17th century. [ citation needed ] Dutch pinnaces had a hull form resembling a small race-built galleon and usually rigged as a ship ( square rigged on three masts ), or carrying a similar rig on two masts (in a fashion akin to the later " brig ").
The 17th century lasted from January 1, 1601 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCI), to December 31, 1700 (MDCC).. It falls into the early modern period of Europe and in that continent (whose impact on the world was increasing) was characterized by the Baroque cultural movement, the latter part of the Spanish Golden Age, the Dutch Golden Age, [1] the French Grand Siècle dominated by Louis ...
Early billiard games involved various pieces of additional equipment, including the "arch" (related to the croquet hoop), "port" (a different hoop, often rectangular), and "king" (a pin or skittle near the arch) in the early 17th to late 18th century, [7] [4] but other game variants, relying on the cushions (and pockets cut into them), were ...
Category: Buildings and structures completed in the 17th century. 30 languages. Anarâškielâ ...
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This variant uses short, crude mallets, the port, and a round-bottomed king pin. Dating back to at least the 15th century as a tabletop game, [2]: 117 [3]: 5 and in recognizable form to as early as the 14th, [1]: 4 this proto-billiards game appears to have been ancestral to croquet (19th century), trucco (17th century; also known as trucks or ...