scrimshaw in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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Other forms of scrimshaw included whalebone fids (rope splicer), bodkins (needle), swifts (yarn holding equipment) and sailors' canes.
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The website allows users to virtually browse the maritime museum's collection, from works of scrimshaw to descriptions and images of the seagoing vessels from the city's past.
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The picture is sometimes wayward and unwieldy, its dialog creaky and awkward, like an amateur's attempt at scrimshaw.
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Amongst other art forms, he drew underground comics and carved scrimshaw.
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Fringed bowhead baleen with scrimshaw designs lies on the pool table, enticing souvenir hunters to leave a few more dollars in the community.
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Though rarely etched into whale bone these days, the art of scrimshaw has developed into a recognised contemporary art form.
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Scrimshaw is being created today still using fossilized ivories, recycled teeth, bones, plastic and more.
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The time when most scrimshaw in the 19th century was produced coincided with the heyday of the whaling industry which occurred between 1840-1860.
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He noted the different types of miniature art, rarely described as such, in jewelry, prayer book illuminations, scrimshaw, buttons, netsuke carvings, and portraits.
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The art of scratching designs onto ivory (teeth) and bone was known as scrimshaw.
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