What is "arabesques"

Usage examples of "arabesques".

Everywhere the wainscots were embossed in ormolu or painted with flowers and arabesques.

The Abbe Gama, who had some exceedingly good snuff in an Origonela box, sent a pinch to Therese, and she sent him her snuff in a tortoise-shell box encrusted with gold in arabesques--an exquisite piece of workmanship.

They came to tall doors set in the stone, both doors and stone carved with serpents in endless arabesques.

So we pour it in a Pernod bottle and start for New Orleans past iridescent lakes and orange gas flares, and swamps and garbage heaps, alligators crawling around in broken bottles and tin cans, neon arabesques of motels, ma rooned pimps scream obscenities at passing cars from islands of rubbish.

Catatonic youths dressed as women in gowns of burlap and rotten rags, faces heavily and crudely painted in bright colors over a strata of beatings, arabesques of broken, suppurating scars to the pearly bone, push against the passer-by in silent clinging insistence.

At the same time the remarkably sharp and elevated roof of the modern palace, covered with lead, upon which glistening encrustations of gilt copper rolled themselves in a thousand fantastic arabesques, that roof so curiously damasked, gracefully lifted itself from amid the embrowned ruins of the ancient building, whose old clumsy towers, bellying like casks, and cracked from top to bottom, were ready to tumble to pieces with age.

Each window, and each main beam which separated the different storeys, was covered with arabesques of fantastic personages and animals wreathed with conventional foliage.

The woodwork of the oratory then consisted of about a hundred and eighty oblong panels, one hundred of which still exist, all presenting arabesques of different designs, evidently suggested by the most beautiful arabesques of Italy.

The ceiling, composed of long, narrow boards carefully joined and painted, was covered with blue arabesques on a gold ground, a part of which being torn down about fifty years ago was instantly purchased by a lover of antiquities.

Dormer windows were cut in this roof, with casings and pediments which the chisel of some great artist had covered with arabesques and dentils.

So we pour it in a Pernod bottle and start for New Orleans past iridescent lakes and orange gas flares, and swamps and garbage heaps, alligators crawling around in broken bottles and tin cans, neon arabesques of motels, marooned pimps scream obscenities at passing cars from islands of rubbish.

Catatonic youths dressed as women in gowns of burlap and rotten rags, faces heavily and crudely painted in bright colors over a strata of beatings, arabesques of broken, suppurating scars to the pearly bone, push against the passer-by in silent clinging insistence.

The rich, amber sunlight of High Summer filtered through the arabesques of the wooden shutters, most of which were open.

Leyna Astar put her delicate hands upon the table, the arabesques of light giving them an otherworldly dimension.

They were odd, giving off no glitter where the arabesques of sunlight struck them.