girandola

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girandola - an ornate candle holder; often with a mirror

girandole

candle holder, candlestick - a holder with sockets for candles

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Em Girandola de Amores, de Aluisio Azevedo, Januaria, velha mucama, ajeitava o vestido de noiva de Clorinda, de quem havia sido mucama desde crianca.

Dressmakers, Maids, Washerwomen and Saleswomen: Women's Work in The Nineteenth Century and the Care for Clothes (Rio de Janeiro, 1850-1920)/ Costureiras, mucamas, lavadeiras e vendedoras: o trabalho feminino no seculo XIX e o cuidado com as roupas (Rio de Janeiro, 1850-1920)

Avvolte in ambientazioni degne di un'opera musicale, si susseguono una girandola di situazioni estreme e di gesti plateali in cui realta e finzione tendono a fondersi portando il confine tra la vita reale della cantante e quella delle eroine da lei rappresentate ad assottigliarsi sempre piu.

Nuove visioni drammaturgiche e sociali nel teatro e nella letteratura di Giuseppe Patroni Griffi

These two affective dimensions are commonly used to characterize the state of cognitive dissonance (Cooper, 2007; Fointiat, Girandola, & Gosling, 2013; Harmon-Jones, 2000; Vaidis, 2011).

Self-prophecies and cognitive dissonance: habit, norms and justification of past behavior

The theme of the environment is today at the heart of debates of a social or political nature (Weiss and Girandola, 2010).

The impact of social partnership on the environment

E enorme, regio, rosnador, em mais de um plano, cheio de festoes, parecido com um peixe, um gaviao, um guarda-chuva, um porta-bibelos, uma girandola. Encanta-me.

Full of grace: the poetics of the minimum in the works of Guimaraes Rosa and Osman Lins/Cheias de graca: as poeticas mambembes de Guimaraes Rosa e Osman Lins

To occupy himself, the artist turned to realising some of the fiery scenes and great landscapes that he had witnessed on his recent tour of Italy, notably The Annual Girandola at the Castel Sant' Angelo, Rome of 1775-76, and most spectacularly of all, his Vesuvius in Eruption, with a View over the Islands in the Bay of Naples (1776; Fig.

Bath time: Stephen Lloyd on a superb exhibition that reasseses Wright of Derby's short-lived stay in Bath

Lodice, nos cuenta Tarsila, girandola bocabajo, lo que acaba por arrancar carcajadas del publico.

La belleza en la obra de Tarsila do Amaral

Anthony Piermatteo (1), Gregory Lo Monaco (1), Laure Moreau (1), Fabien Girandola (1) and Jean-Louis Tavani (2)