(n.) A general term for certain kinds of fabrics, which are formed of two series of threads interlacing each other, thus forming double cloth, quilted in the loom; -- so named because first made in Marseilles, France.
Example Sentences:
(1) A foretaste of discontent came when Florian Thauvin, the underachieving £13m winger signed from Marseille last summer , was serenaded with chants of ‘You’re not fit to wear the shirt” from away fans during Saturday’s FA Cup defeat at Watford .
(2) Dimitri Payet From Marseille to West Ham United Fee £10.7m Age 28 Position Forward Such has Payet’s impact been at Upton Park that he has already been rewarded with a new contract worth up to £125,000 a week despite signing for the club only at the end of June.
(3) Known as the melting pot of the south, Marseille is home to a large proportion – possibly up to a fifth – of France's total Roma population, itself estimated at between 15,000 and 20,000.
(4) A hundred and thirty patients have been treated with Amitriptylin in the "Clinique de Psychiatrie" in Marseille during the last eight years.
(5) A Ryanair spokesman said: "Since all of our people operating to or from Marseille between 2007 and 2010 have already paid their social taxes and pension contributions in Ireland , in full compliance with Irish and EU employment regulations, we do not believe that either Ryanair or our people can be forced to double-pay these contributions a second time in France."
(6) Marseille’s Ghanaian striker André Ayew has been a fixture in the King’s Cross crawlspace the Rumour Mill calls home for some months now, having announced his intention to leave the Ligue 1 side for pastures new and preferably Premier League this summer.
(7) But France's second largest pilots' union complained that staff based in Marseille were working under Irish contracts and paying no taxes in France.
(8) The Marseilles area continues to be an endemic region of mediterranean tick bite fever.
(9) We analyzed the role of the Marseille pharmacovigilance center (working in collaboration with the local poison treatment center) in informing the general public on medicinal drugs.
(10) Marseille’s Florian Thauvin cancelled out Blaise Matuidi’s early goal in the first half, but Ibrahimovic, playing his final game for the club, took the game away from PSG’s bitter rivals after the break.
(11) Since 1933, four families have been found in Marseilles with bilateral tumours of the acoustic nerve spread over three generations in three families.
(12) Arsenal might not have the full Marseille experience because the Vélodrome is under capacity, due to redevelopment work for Euro 2016.
(13) Equally popular was the stylish Borsalino, starring Belmondo and Alain Delon as insouciant gangsters in 1930s Marseilles.
(14) FIVE MORE FRENCH COASTAL GEMS Marseille grotto Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy A 40-minute walk from Marseille’s Luminy university campus, Calanque de Sugiton, the most picturesque of the city’s rugged, limestone coves has blue-green waters, twisted pine trees and a narrow island-rock to swim out to known as Le Torpilleur.
(15) PSG top the table by 10 points from their bitter rivals Marseille with one game remaining, and were only edged out on away goals by Barcelona in the last eight in Europe.
(16) The IgE response to castor bean (Ricinus communis) was studied in 96 castor bean-allergic patients from Marseilles, France.
(17) The city of Marseille has been forced to scrap a scheme which would see homeless people carrying a photo ID card containing their personal details and medical information.
(18) You need everything.” – Bordeaux coach Willy Sagnol on the ‘typical African player’ “The intelligence I wanted to talk about was tactical intelligence.” – Sagnol clears things up “I want to buy your monkey with the square feet.” – What former Marseille president Bernard Tapie reportedly told then Auxerre coach Guy Roux before signing Basile Boli in 1990.
(19) To make the II Marseilles Classification of Pancreatitis more applicable to everyday clinical practice, a new systemic approach is suggested basing on clinical, laboratory, CT and ultrasound evidence.
(20) The match on Saturday between arch-rivals Paris Saint-Germain and Olympique Marseille at the Stade de France had been deemed a high-risk event and a first test for organisers of security measures required for Euro 2016.
Quilt
Definition:
(n.) Anything that is quilted; esp., a quilted bed cover, or a skirt worn by women; any cover or garment made by putting wool, cotton, etc., between two cloths and stitching them together; also, any outer bed cover.
(v. t.) To stitch or sew together at frequent intervals, in order to confine in place the several layers of cloth and wadding of which a garment, comforter, etc., may be made; as, to quilt a coat.
(v. t.) To wad, as a garment, with warm soft material.
(v. t.) To stitch or sew in lines or patterns.
Example Sentences:
(1) Southampton are in their not-particularly-popular all-red number, while Liverpool sport their not-particularly-popular purple-white-and-black quilted shirt.
(2) The territories of the motoneurones are arranged in a quilt-like pattern closely resembling that already found for the receptive fields of sensory cells on the skin.
(3) Here we describe a variation of Gerlach's quilting technique to overcome the problem and this modification has proven to be both simple and effective.
(4) In the first six cases, split-thickness skin was quilted onto the muscle.
(5) 18 secondary perforations were seen with the quilt-plasties.
(6) In most cases, asthma occurred in winter, due to seasonal use of bed quilts or clothes filled with silk.
(7) ITN has called for a single contract to cover all of England rather than a "patchwork quilt" of regions.
(8) The influence of structure (pressed sheets or loosely quilted materials) and exposition (single, piled or between sheets of plaster) was represented.
(9) My colleague Tim Adams, who was writing an article on better potential candidates for the London mayoralty, stood beside me, as we watched the quilted, coiffed godfather of punk, and gawped.
(10) I remember getting my first quilt with my own quilt cover and just walking around this children’s home wrapped up in it.
(11) It was Caitlin Moran who said that feminism should be a “massive patchwork quilt”; we should all fight the battles that are important to us, and bring our individual ideas and strengths to the movement.
(12) But this is a very big country and cannot be run by a very much smaller civil service in London and a huge, disparate patchwork quilt of local authorities all pulling in different directions," he says.
(13) Since the use of silk waste for the filling of bed quilts a great number of patients suffering especially from silk-asthma could be observed.
(14) Blanket, or quilt, insulation is easy to lay yourself and available at DIY stores – try B&Q 's sustainable rockwool, from £5 a roll – in stores on 21 October.
(15) At this year's Frieze, the quilted, chained shoulderbag was the style of choice in an environment where designer accessories come as standard.
(16) For others, it's a symbiotic process; a campaigning idea might be expressed through craft – let's say you're making a patchwork quilt out of embroidered vulvas, to protest against female genital mutilation – and then in the act of crafting, the idea finds new expression.
(17) Even with the quilt it gets pretty cold, but exercise helps."
(18) In each case a quilted, split-skin grafted pectoralis major muscle flap was used.
(19) Some of them presented talks in which they applied high level maths to crochet, knitting, needlework and quilting.
(20) This report describes two female patients, 69 and 79 years old, with squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) developing from erythema ab igne (EAI) due to thermal irradiation from a sunken hearth (irori in Japanese) or an underfloor brazier covered with a quilt (kotatsu in Japanese).