Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In gun.: A coiled ring of wrought-iron or steel designed for strengthening the exterior of cannon.
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A delicate braid frames Frette's pure cashmere Olga blanket, which comes in ivory or caramel ($5,800; frette. com).
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En fait maintenant que j'ai pris l'habitude de mettre desormais mon majeur et plus mon annulaire sur la frette jaune, ca va tout seul!
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The Girls, The Collectors, and The Life barbylon 2004
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Quebec joke: "Il ne fait pas froid au Québec, y fa frette en hostie!"
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PLEASE give me a break... just a little one barbylon 2003
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The third is the shield of Sir John Randon; Gules, a bend checquy or and azure, impaling Argent, a frette, and on a chief, gules, three escallops of the field; over all, the chief of the order.
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DESPENCER, Earl of GLOUCESTER, he marshals an Escutcheon of Pretence charged with _De Clare_, No. 124, quartering _Le Despencer_ -- _quarterly arg. and gu., in the second and third quarters a frette or, over all a bend sa.
The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844
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But in the Magellans streight wee are violently driuen backe West: Ergo, through the Northwesterne straight or Annian frette shall we not be able to returne Eastward?
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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The first, for that the northwesterne straight hath more sea roome at the least by one hundreth English myles, than Magellans frette hath, the onely want whereof causeth all narrow passages generally to be most violent.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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+ Who can blame this woman to fume and frette and rage?
Ralph Roister Doister Nicholas Udall 1530
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