Términos

Openings, breaches, or excavations through walls or ramparts, used as gates, passages, or flood barriers.

Artists in any media who were official members of and worked for a noble court.

Court records limited to the daily court proceedings of a given court.

Long formal trains, made of luxurious materials that were compulsory wear for women at royal court from the beginning of the 19th century. Worn with a court dresses, these may be attached from the waist, or with straps around the shoulders, or both. The decoration of court trains was controlled by protocol according to the station of the wearer.

Prenda medieval, generalmente corta, con escote redondo y cuello alto.

In East Asia, names given to individuals at adulthood, in addition to one's given name. In China, historically, the assignation of a courtesy name occurred at age twenty.

Flautas de tubo de los pueblos nativos americanos tradicionalmente hechas de madera o caña, en que la perforación es bloqueada por un compartimiento que fuerza la corriente de aire fuera de la abertura donde un bloque externo, normalmente de madera está ligado al tubo, canaliza el aire a través del exterior del tubo a un segundo orificio en donde impacta con el borde sonorizante; tradicionalmente usado como un instrumento de corte masculino para ejecutar solos.

Animation technique that implements a courvoisier set-up, or grouping, in which figures are trimmed to their edges, glued to a background typically composed of wood veneer, patterns, or hand-painted watercolors, and covered by a protective top cel. The technique was developed by the Courvoisier Galleries in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

Se refiere al tipo de estructura o agrupación de animación de celuloide compuesta por dos o más papeles en una producción de fondo que fue creado por las Galerías Courvoisier o que imita los fondos creados por ella, a fines de 1930 y comienzos de 1940. Se distingue por la técnica por la cual las figuras eran recortadas en sus bordes, pegadas a un fondo usualmente compuesto de chapas de madera, modelos o acuarelas pintadas a mano y cubiertas por una lámina de celuloide cobertor.

Style and culture of a Native American people living primarily in the U.S. state of Louisiana and speaking Coushatta language, in the Muskogean family.

Dressmakers, usually limited to those creating clothing of high quality and those who are also fashion designers.

Titles printed or impressed on the cover of a publication as issued by the publisher, which may be a shortened form of the title proper.

Date range including earliest and latest dates of items in a group. For example, dates for the subjects contained in the archival materials, used particularly when the subjects do not correspond to the dates when the group or series was created. For example, a series created in the 1970s about the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor would have a coverage date of 1941 and inclusive dates of 1970-1979 (e.g., 1941 (coverage), 1970-1979 (inclusive dates)).

Cualquier tipo de prenda variada, como blusas sueltas, trajes pantalón, caftán, sarongs, etc. que se lleva sobre un traje de baño, ropa de ejercicios o semejante.

Towns that are market centers for cattle; also used to refer to isolated, provincial small towns.

Neckwear in the form of broad tubes or loops that fit over the wearer's head and neck, worn as a scarf.