How To Use Rigil In A Sentence
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John Trigilio, Jr., PhD, ThD, president of the Confraternity of Catholic Clergy and co-author of Catholicism For Dummies, has written in that vein:
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The basic equipment of an athlete consisted only of an unguent jar (aryballos) of oil and a scraping instrument (strigil) for anointing and cleaning himself, though for various events a competitor might need boxing thongs, jumping weights, discus, or javelin.
The Ancient Olympics (1996)
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After their competition the steamy athletes scraped off the oily mess with a strigil, which looks something like a sickle.
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Along with the Ionic capital's circling volute and the repeating Greek key pattern, strigilation is one of the three most popular patterns of classical art.
Forged in the Classical Tradition
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Romans would sit and perspire, and their skin was scraped with a curved metal tool called a strigil.
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A student would use a strigil or bronze scraper to remove the olive oil he had applied.
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They are made by the same Belgian manufacturer, Frigilunch NV.
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Their simultaneous comprehension of immortal hope and carnal funk - of Zeus and strigils - persists, through their art.
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After this a slave would rub olive oil into the visitor's skin and then scrap it off with a strigil.
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The strigillation, or curvilinear fluting, of the frieze immediately below the Pantheon-domed roof is a type of enrichment associated with classical sarcophagi.
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And so no doubt he would have of strigil and sistrum, if, instead of currycomb and cymbal, (which are the English names dictionaries render them by,) he could see stamped in the margin small pictures of these instruments, as they were in use amongst the ancients.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding