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In the later Latin there are the terms opus musivum "mosaic work," musivarius, "mosaic worker," but probably the English word "mosaic" is derived immediately from the French mosaique, which with its earlier form mousaique can only be borrowed from the Italian or Provençal and cannot be the descendant of the earlier French form musike.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Saint Hippolyte et nous ne savons guere qu'une chose de celui d'Origene: c'est qu'il denaturait completement le recit mosaique et n'y voyait que des allegories.
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Anyone can register to write or record stories and post them to a geo location in Switzerland so they appear on the map and create a vivid mosaique representing the diversity of the stories Switzerland has to share.
Liip Blog 2010
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When I travel in my country I see villages, people, architecture, and I keep these pictures in my mind, and then when I start working this comes out as a mosaique, a composition with dances, buildings, people … all this is in my mind: a woman that I make fly in my painting, like a bird, like the migrating birds that I have seen so many times in the port of Aden.
Yemen Observer 2009
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Genese ", Paris, 1872; Idem," Le Moise historique et la redaction mosaique du Pentateuque ", Paris, 1875; Knabenbauer," Der Pentateuch und die unglaubige Bibelkritik "in" Stimmen aus Maria-Laach ", 1873,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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"Demonstration de l'authenticite mosaique du Levitique et des
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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