(n.) A light fabric of wool, worn on the head by women; a cloud.
Example Sentences:
(1) The impressive choice of drinks ranges from local cider to unusual rosés from Navarra and punchy Toro and Bierzo reds, all selected by charming Nubia, wife of Juan Mari.
(2) Much of the earlier work on the prehistory of Sudanese Nubia has emphasized discontinuity between early Nubian populations.
(3) In 5000-year-old premolars from Nubia and in 500-year-old teeth from Greenland, the lead concentrations were very low; modern teeth contained 10-100 times more lead.
(4) Virgilio, Rafael (Escuela de Química y Farmacia, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile), C. González, Nubia Muñoz, and Silvia Mendoza.
(5) Hair samples from 76 burials at Semna South (Sudanese Nubia) were examined using a variety of techniques.
(6) Nubia Delmas, 52, came out to remonstrate with the team.
(7) • www.ashmolean.org Galleries of Ancient Egypt and Nubia reopen, free, at the Ashmolean Museum , Oxford, on 26 November
(8) An analysis of the relationship between oral pathology and degenerative change at the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) was undertaken on an archaeological sample of 122 adult crania from the Medieval site of Kulubnarti in Sudanese Nubia.
(9) Using a sample of 172 tibias from children excavated from the Medieval Christian site of Kulubnarti, located in Nubia's Batn el Hajar, the present research examines the relationship between percent cortical area, bone mineral content, and cross-sectional moments of inertia.
(10) Functional analysis of the true pelvis (defined as that portion lying below and including the pelvic brim) was undertaken on a sample of 36 females from the Medieval site of Kulubnarti in Sudanese Nubia.
(11) The present research focuses on craniofacial variation in Nubia over approximately 10,000 years.
(12) That was unveiled in 2009 and on 26 November the public will finally see the all new Ancient Egypt and Nubia galleries, also redesigned by Mather.
(13) Analysis of enamel hypoplasia frequencies for two medieval populations representing the earliest and latest Christian periods of ancient Nubia reveals important diachronic shifts in childhood stress.
(14) To Hisham, the young man who followed me halfway along Aswan's corniche, it was the doorway to a land that has since disappeared beneath the waters of Lake Nasser: "Nubia, my home."
(15) Four skeletal series (Corinth, Greece; Gran Quivira, New Mexico; Semna South, Sudanese Nubia, and a large group from scattered sites in England) were coded for sex, jaw, tooth group, dental attrition, dental caries, site and time period.
Scarf
Definition:
(n.) A cormorant.
(n.) An article of dress of a light and decorative character, worn loosely over the shoulders or about the neck or the waist; a light shawl or handkerchief for the neck; also, a cravat; a neckcloth.
(v. t.) To throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf.
(v. t.) To dress with a scarf, or as with a scarf; to cover with a loose wrapping.
(v. t.) To form a scarf on the end or edge of, as for a joint in timber, metal rods, etc.
(v. t.) To unite, as two pieces of timber or metal, by a scarf joint.
(n.) In a piece which is to be united to another by a scarf joint, the part of the end or edge that is tapered off, rabbeted, or notched so as to be thinner than the rest of the piece.
(n.) A scarf joint.
Example Sentences:
(1) Schyman comes across like a fusion of Germaine Greer and Ken Livingstone, dressed in Parisian chic with a maroon dress and a colourful scarf.
(2) Here’s Marie-Josée Kravis, advisor to the New York Fed, accessorizing brilliantly with her snake-effect silk scarf off on a power walk with her billionaire financier husband Henry Kravis, head of predatory investment company KKR.
(3) They say it is easier than knitting a scarf, the typical starter project for novices.
(4) After scarfing platefuls of seafood on the terrace, we wandered down to the harbour where two fishermen, kitted out in wetsuits, were setting out by boat across the clear turquoise water to collect goose barnacles.
(5) 37 Castle Street, Somerset, A5 1LN; 01278 732 266; janetphillips-weaving.co.uk East Assington Mill's rural skills courses range from cane-and-rush chair making to silk scarf dyeing– and some more unusual options, too.
(6) Their scarf-twirling fans were a wedge of Mediterranean colour spliced into a block of Mancunian red.
(7) Under the vast murals of Oslo's City Hall, the traditional venue for the Nobel peace prize lectures, Aung Sun Suu Kyi appeared impossibly small, entering the hall wearing a purple jacket and flowing lilac scarf to the sound of a trumpet fanfare.
(8) In 12 dogs, a Vicryl scarf was laid around the cardia; six dogs served as controls.
(9) The scarf will demonstrate to the fans that you recognize the dictator for who he really is, and show that you stand behind the fans.
(10) To really be beloved in France he needs to learn to swear with the virtuosity of a Frenchman who's mislaid his linen Agnes B scarf in the Rue du Bac.
(11) The barman told her the gunman was “Arabic looking”, with a beard and a scarf partially covering his face.
(12) Though he loves sport, he is now sworn off attending NFL matches at the MetLife stadium after attending a Jets v Titans game with his girlfriend and being “vilified from the parking lot to my seat for wearing a scarf”.
(13) However, that line was breached decisively on Monday night when Murdoch tweeted: "Gerald Scarfe has never reflected the opinions of the Sunday Times.
(14) Tom Young, 63, a retired British Gas worker wearing a red tartan scarf, said Berwick was "the forgotten area of Northumberland".
(15) The lawyer said the fabric had been subject to the same processes and dyed the same colour as the red scarf sample previously tested.
(16) Andy McNab, in pink trousers, would tab past the tousled figure of Tom Stoppard, slipping in the back-door in his ankle-length woollen scarf.
(17) If you buy the scarf of the local football club, you will find that this too has changed its name – from Diyarbakirspor to Amedspor.
(18) Glitter, who is hard of hearing and was aided throughout the trial by two lip speaking interpreters, arrived at court each day in his trademark dark glasses and a variety of different coloured tailored jackets, patterned silk scarf and a felt or cossack hat.
(19) Bennett looks smart as ever today – orange scarf, navy blue pullover, light blue shirt, green tie, tan suede shoes, all beautifully colour-coordinated.
(20) As ever, we are immediately drawn into the old "is it antisemitic, isn't it antisemitic" routine – as if anybody could ever prove what actually goes on in Gerald Scarfe's head; and as if what goes on in his head is the most important thing in all of this.