How To Use Urex In A Sentence
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The 'murex' contains a dye of miraculous beauty; and this once extracted and bottled, Hobbs, Nobbs, and Co. may trade in it and feast; but the poet who (figuratively) brought the murex to land, and created its value, may, as Keats probably did, eat porridge all his life.
A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)
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Diana Vreeland decorated her 1955 apartment to look like "a garden in hell"; in 2011 Katrantzou morphed images of Vreeland's apartment into a collection of Lurex knits – clothes that appear even wilder when you see them against today's Céline-led landscape of clean lines, camel, "good taste".
Prints and the revolution: fashion designer Mary Katrantzou
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There were plenty of other people who lived lives just as eccentric as these: Monsieur Jules, the Roumanian, who had a glass eye and would not admit it, Furex the Liniousin stonemason, Roucolle the miserhe died before my time, thoughold Laurent the rag-merchant, who used to copy his signature from a slip of paper he carried in his pocket.
Down and Out in Paris and London
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The whole verse of course begins to explain itself, if we know the meaning of the word "murex," which is the name of a sea-shell, out of which was made the celebrated blue dye of Tyre.
Robert Browning
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In New York, the looks ranged from a sparkly Lurex hoodie at Marc Jacobs , to asymmetrical hoods attached to sport coats at Rag & Bone, to a leather hoodie at upscale menswear designer Simon Spurr .
High Fashion Sees Something New in the Hood
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It was mostly inspired by the South of France in the Fifties but there is such a rich mix of fabrics, including Lurex, bouclé and Irish linen that you can make of it what you will.
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In the mid-1980's he had purchased a rather dramatic lurex jacket which had a tailor's label bearing the word MERC with the device of a mounted horseman.
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As well as merino, lurex also features - a shiny, stretchy icon of the '70s.
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The winning nomination, according to the team of judges was, ‘Awarded for a fur-like, silver lurex shiny fabric, with lustre and matte finish interwoven.’
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Furex was a strange creature, a Limousin stonemason who worked steadily all the week and drank himself into a kind of paroxysm on Saturdays.
Down and Out in Paris and London
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While others offered Lurex waistcoats and aloha-print bra tops (in sizes that only models can manage), Allard once again offered the classic and practical.
Good Girls, Bad Girls
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She was having a pillar box red night and was wearing the biggest, reddest lurex minidress Holly had ever seen.
JUST BETWEEN US
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Naurex has used these discoveries to generate novel chemical drug classes known as glycine site functional partial agonists (GFPAs).
Medindia Health News
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Ken was dressed in the latest Carnaby Street fashions: intricately patterned salmon-pink jacket, cream slacks, and a matching cream cravat, in lurex.
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These wide-ranging traders were especially known for trafficking in the cedars of Lebanon from the coastal mountains of their homeland and a rare purple dye derived from the murex shells of the Lebanese coast.
Alexander the Great
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Tiny lurex tops, bumfreezer leggings and high heels, this gang with red-painted lips and rouged cheeks and hair coiffed high ran riot.
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From amid these evil dreams, which menaced his health, he was sent into the country, where he recovered within a year and a half, but at the age of fifteen he once confessed: "Je n'osais pas l'avouer, mais j'éprouvais continuellement des picotements et des surexcitations aux _parties_; à la fin, cela m'énervait tant que plusieurs fois, j'ai pensé me jeter par la fenêtre au dortoir.
Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners
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Added to them was a stench of dyeworks and murex-shell middens on the mainland; but sailing along the coast and camping ashore every night, he had gotten used to that by now.
Time Patrolman
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To use Browning's words, Scott "fished the murex up," so that Carlyle outdid Macaulay in "azure feats.
History and Literature
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Vickmans Laboratories Ltd. (Vickmans), a local drugs manufacturer, was ordered to suspend operation to facilitate the investigation into a suspected case of fungal contamination involving two batches of frusemide 40 mg tablets (trade name Diurex with registration no.
Emaxhealth
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In preparing the dye the buccinum was used last, the dye of the murex being necessary to render the colors fast, while the buccinum enlivened by its tint of red the dark hue of the murex.
Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
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A Lurex sweater over a dress says: "I'm going out but not all out.
Party frocks are failing us
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A touch of transcendental chic is evidenced by a novel mechanics' overall and a little good-natured eccentricity comes through by means of a velvet bomber jacket and a lurex mock turtle.
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The ceryx and the purple murex have this organ firm and solid; and just as the myops, or horse-fly, and the oestrus, or gadfly, can pierce the skin of a quadruped, so is that proboscis proportionately stronger in these testaceans; for they bore right through the shells of other shell-fish on which they prey.
The History of Animals
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But when it is all ready for the market, the small dealers, "put blue into their line", and outdare each other in azure feats by which they secure great popularity, and, as a result, fare sumptuously; while he who fished the murex up was unrecognized, and fed, perhaps, on porridge.
An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry
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In one corner were piles of seashells attractively packaged and framed in boxes for hanging on the wall - cowries and mitre shells, murex and spider shells.
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So we went, and these guys came out in make-up, high heels and lurex.
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In one corner were piles of seashells attractively packaged and framed in boxes for hanging on the wall - cowries and mitre shells, murex and spider shells.
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And it is the same with the haemorrhoid, the purple murex, and all suchlike animals.
The History of Animals
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The region around Tyre was well known in the ancient world for its purple dye made from the murex grandaris mollusc.
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A note of caution: If you want a padded, white and Lurex onesy with a fox-fur collar, you should go elsewhere.
The Whole Ski Kit and Kaboodle
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He took an African wallet and eighteen English Durex Gossamer which Joy had got free at the Family Planning years back.
WHITE LIES
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A number of labels showed flashy pieces that looked like eveningwear, in shiny Lurex, sequins, metallic paillettes and crushed velvet, but paired them — sometimes incongruously — with down-to-earth daywear.
Glamour Amid the Gloom
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Condoms have been around since 1350BC, according to Durex, when ancient Egyptian tribesmen used sheaths as protection against infection, injury and insect bites.
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The Phoenicians were the pioneers in the seventh century BC, scouting for the imperial purple dye found in the murex sea snails of the Moroccan coast.
Atlantic: A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon Winchester – review
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He cringed to hear it—its hull grinding the calices of finger corals and the tiny tubes of pipe organ corals, tearing the flower and fern shapes of soft corals, and damaging shells too: punching holes in olives and murexes and spiny whelks, in Hydatina physis and Turris babylonia.
The Shell Collector : Stories
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The haute designer will launch a collection for Target April 25 that will include a stretchy gold Lurex halter dress for $49.99 or about 1/40th of his typical runway-line prices.
'Mom, I'll Make a Profit Soon'
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Murexide is produced by the action of ammonia on alloxan, which is itself derived from the uric acid of guano by treatment with nitric acid, and was known nearly forty years back to stain the fingers and nails red.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
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Oriental prints were used on dresses reinforcing the Geisha girl theme while lurex and sequin dresses offered glamour for the evening.
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These prints coordinated with the firm's printed, knitted velvet and lurex sheer knits.
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The lurex and chain versions were adopted by the more street-wise city dwellers at the same time.
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Knitwear is key and appears in every imaginable form: an ankle-length Aran dress, long tweedy knit cardigan, sexy fine knit evening top shot with lurex, dainty lace effect camisole or soft stripe sweater.
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Choose ONE shiny garment, perhaps a sweater with a little Lurex thread in the knit, and add ONE shiny accessory.
Oh No She Didn’t
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I can think of a lot of pink in nature: the inside of a white murex shell is pink.
The Pink Dress
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Then I became allergic to Durex so I went back on the Pill, a different one.
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The over-the-top product placement has even found its way into the bedrooms of the Olympic Village, as condom maker Durex will distribute over 130,000 free condoms to any athlete looking to score off the field.
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Her lurex leggings, high suede boots and yellow sweatshirt are folded and tucked away with equal care.
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It's made from soft cotton and features Western style pockets, pearl snap details, and Lurex stitching for a cool vintage look.
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What we chiefly learn from this writer as to the dyeing process is [823] -- first, that sometimes the liquid derived from the _murex_ only, sometimes that of the _purpura_ or _buccinum_ only, was applied to the material which it was wished to colour, while the most approved hue was produced by an application of both dyes separately.
History of Phoenicia
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However, the creatures inside murex shells are edible and are consumed in some parts of the world.
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Old Hogan looking at her stonily as she stuttered her way to asking for a packet of Durex.
AT THE STROKE OF TWELVE
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I wish I could get royal purple not amythyst, not murex purple — real royal purple seed beads.
BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » Bead Creatures
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It was produced by a combination of the secretions of the murex and buccinum.
Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
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Is this indeed the "murex," as Browning calls it, of the Tyrian purple, which can be found on the Minehead rocks at low-tide by the holiday-makers of our day?
Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland
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A poster for Durex next to one for Billy Graham?
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Purex 3-in-1 laundry sheets combine a load's worth of detergent, softener, and antistatic in one sheet.
Making laundry detergents—or at least the containers—good to the last drop
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Tyrian purple, from the shellfish murex, was a dye reserved for the emperor; this dye was worth several times its weight in gold.
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Oriental prints were used on dresses reinforcing the Geisha girl theme while lurex and sequin dresses offered glamour for the evening.
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The clothing is available in a vast variety of weights, with plush effects, blended with silk, mohair, wool and lurex in the ways that make Avon Celli garments instantly recognizable.
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I have never seen so many black and silver lurex cardigans and neatly pressed chinos in one place before.
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Organza makes a great splash along with tulle, lace, elegant luxury fabrics combined with glittering Chantilly, crushed velvet, jersey with lurex and iridescent cady.
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In one corner were piles of seashells attractively packaged and framed in boxes for hanging on the wall - cowries and mitre shells, murex and spider shells.
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The new designs incorporate the pocket embroidery and the same dark colors of the original, but are updated with stretch and modern treatments such as gold lurex threads and rhinestones.
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The clothing is available in a vast variety of weights, with plush effects, blended with silk, mohair, wool and lurex in the ways that make these garments instantly recognizable.
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(argonauta), bia unam (murex), bia balang (cuprea), and many others may be added to the list.
The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants
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Also, introduced for the first time in the United States were dimensional cut velvet jacquards with gold lurex.
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Here, a Lurex hoodie from Marc Jacobs's runway show in New York.
Hoods are High Style
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Best to Corcyra go for cuttle-fish, for the acarne and the fat sea-skull the purple-fish, the little murex too, mice of the sea and the sea-urchin sweet.
The Defense