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Definition of Decamps
1. decamp [v] - See also: decamp
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decamps
Literary usage of Decamps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Artists of the Nineteenth Century and Their Works: A Handbook Containing Two by Clara Erskine Clement Waters, Laurence Hutton (1879)
"Coming, as decamps did, into the age of " classicism," he may be said to have
... The works of decamps are so numerous that no satisfactory list can be ..."
2. Contemporary French Painters: An Essay by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1895)
"It is scarcely safe to speak of decamps in general terms of praise, because there
are ... In this respect the fate of decamps has resembled that of Etty, ..."
3. Notes: Critical & Biographical by R.B. Gruelle. Collection of W.T. Walters by Richard B. Gruelle, William Thompson Walters (1895)
"What holds you is the great power with which the occult and mysterious nature of
decamps solved the problems of light, dark and color. ..."
4. Celebrities of London and Paris: Being a Third Series of Reminiscences and by Rees Howell Gronow (1865)
"decamps AND THE DUKE OF ORLEANS.—Some twenty years back, or thereabout, I was
breakfasting with my late lamented friend, Lord H. Seymour, when decamps, ..."
5. Views and Reviews: Essays in Appreciation by William Ernest Henley (1902)
"... accepted: it was understood to mean no more than immorality in theory and
incompetence in practice; and decamps was one of the ensigns of Romanticism. ..."
6. Apollo: An Illustrated Manual of the History of Art Throughout the Ages by Salomon Reinach (1907)
"The Painters of Oriental Subjects, decamps, etc.—The Barbizon School.—Corot and
Millet.— The Realists, Courbet and Manet. ..."
7. Tobacco Talk and Smokers' Gossip: An Amusing Miscellany of Fact and Anecdote (1884)
"decamps AND HORACE VERNET. CRITIC once discovered that the _ great ... The French
Murillo, the Oriental colourist, the sublime decamps, smoked a pipe. ..."
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