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Definition of Tenters
1. tenter [v] - See also: tenter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tenters
Literary usage of Tenters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Apollo: An Illustrated Manual of the History of Art Throughout the Ages by Salomon Reinach (1907)
"David tenters. IN 1556, the Netherlands, which had formed a part of the Empire
of Charles V., passed to the Kingdom of Spain. For some thirty years past the ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"Sykes, for instance, when his dressing-shop was set on flre and burned to the
ground, when the cloth was ton) from his tenters and left in shreds on the ..."
3. Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings edited by John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins (1887)
"... in 1650, and Seven Works of Mercy, David tenters, younger, Louvre, Paris.
7 ft. 5 in. x 5 ft. 9 in. Scene from Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress: "Methought I ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1817)
"Gas Lights, 2J. Discount.—Southwark Bridge Old Shares, 42/. lor 85A> paid.—New
Ditto, paid up, b(1l. — Drury-Lane [tenters' Shares, lilt. ..."
5. Practical Essays on Mill Work and Other Machinery by Robertson Buchanan, Thomas Tredgold (1841)
"These lift-tenters are drawn from sketches taken in the neighbourhood of Liverpool
in the year 1790. SECTION III. 398. Governors are sometimes applied to ..."
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