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Title: An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology. Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c., with their derivations
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Mollett, John W. (John William)
Subjects: Art -- Dictionaries Archaeology -- Dictionaries
Publisher: London, S. Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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, thewife of Saturn, which were held every year onthe fourteenth of the calends of January (19th ofDecember). Opalescent. Having a play of colours likethe opal. Open-tide, O. E. The season betweenlipiphanyand Ash-Wednesday, when marriageswere publicly solemnized. Opera. A lyrical drama set to music ; origi-nated at Florence in the i6th century. (Con-sult Doni (passim), Arteaga Manfrcdini, Signo-relli, ike. ; also Dr. Burney^s Tours andCorrespondence, and Grimnis Correspondcnce.\ Operculum, R. A cover for any kind ofearthenware vessel. Ophicleide (^x^it, a serpent, and K\ii%, a key).A wind instrument of brass or copper made inthe form of a serpent. Generally, the bass of amilitary liand. Ophiomancy, (Jr. Divination by snakes. Ophiomorphous. Snake-shaped. Ophite or Ophiolite. Green porphyry orSerpentine. Ophites, Chr. A sect which arose in tlie 2nd century in the Christian Church. They believedthat the Serpent who tempted Eve was Christ him-self. They are also called Serpentinians. (S.)
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Fig. 501. ()piiiia Spolia. Trophy of Gallic Ensigns. Opima Spolia, R. The spoils of honour,consisting of armour set u)> as a trophy anddedicated in the temple of Ju)>iter Feretrius atRome. These were spoils taken from the chiefof a hostile army, who had been killed by thehand of a Roman general. Plutarch assertsthat the spolia opima were actually taken onlythree times. Opinicns, Her. A fabulous heraldic monster;a dragon before and a lion behind, with a camelstail. Opisthodomos, Gr. (oin(r0<J-5o//o$). Latin, Pos-ticutn. A small chamber placed at the backof a temple, to which the priests alone hadaccess. ART AND ARCHEOLOGY. 235 Oporotheca, Gr. (oTrcopo-flrjKjj). A store-housefor fruits. Oppidan. At Eton College, a boy who isnot a kinijs scholar, and boards in the town.

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