10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VENUS'S-HAIR»
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A.D. 1450 for A. capellusveneris); common maiden-hair; southern maiden-hair
cabello de Venus (Venus's hair, Brazil); capelevenere [capil uenere] (Venus's
hair, Italian, from 1551); capillaire (hair, Quebec); cheueux de Venus (Venus's
hair, ...
Some simply dyed their hair. Others spent whole days in the sun hoping to
bleach their tresses. Still others used gold lacquer to create a hair color referred
to as "Venus's hair." (Venus was the Roman goddess of love and beauty.) Jj I I ...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine
We have no objection to the Lady ferns and the Venus's hair, but we have a
tenderer liking for the girl's pretty love-tokens, the woman's work, the primitive
occupation of feminine wit and feminine fingers. The little frocks and pinafores,
that are ...
We have no objection to the Lady ferns and the Venus's hair, but we have a
tenderer liking for the girl's pretty love-tokens, the woman's work, the primitive
occupation of feminine wit and feminine fingers. The little frocks and pinafores,
that are ...
Remedies to conserve hair and to prevent it from falling are made from herbs
such as myrtle and grains of ladanum,621 emblicus, myrobalanus [bennut],
chebula, myrrh, aloes, Venus's hair, and nut galls because of their astringency.
From the ...
Gabriele de Zerbis, Levi Robert Lind, 1988
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CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants: ...
in English: black maidenhair, black maidenhair fern, common maidenhair fern,
maidenhair, maidenhair fern, net hair, rock fern, southern maidenhair, southern
maidenhair fern, Venus hair, Venus's-hair, Venus's-hair fern in Arabic: kuzbarat ...
Umberto Quattrocchi, 2012
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The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of ...
... uen Venusians: uen Venus 's girdle: uen Venus's-hair: uen Venus's bath: uen
Venus's flower basket: uen Venus's-flytrap: uen Venus's looking-glass: uen
veracious: suer II, uero veracity: em, suer II, uero veranda: ua I verano: uesr
veratrine: ...
Joseph Twadell Shipley, 2009
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CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, ...
... black maidenhair, maidenhair fern,Venus's-hair fern, Venus's-hair Arabic:
kuzbaret el-bir, kuzbarat el-bir, saq el-akhal Italian: capelvenere Central America:
culantrillo, chib, culantrillo de pozo Brazil: avenca, avenca-comun, cabelo-de- ...
Umberto Quattrocchi, 1999
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Glaucus; or, The wonders of the shore
... that standing cloak for dreamy idleness, (not to mention the injury which it does
to poor starving needlewomen,) has all but vanished from your drawing-room
since the " Lady-ferns " and " Venus's hair " appeared ; and that you could not
help ...
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Glaucus; or The Wonders of the Shore
... has all but vanished from your drawing-room since the "Lady-ferns" and "
Venus's hair" appeared ; and that you could not help yourself looking now and
then at the said " Venus's hair," and agreeing that nature's real beauties were
somewhat ...
Charles Kingsley, F.S.A., 1856
