KELLS

Meaning of KELLS in English

Kells BrE AmE kelz

Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary. Английский словарь произношений Longman. 2012

KELLS — Kells, The Book of /kelz/ BrE AmE an ↑ illuminated (=with the pages decorated with gold paint and other bright …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
BOOK OF KELLS — A masterpiece of the ornate {{link=Hiberno-Saxon style">Hiberno-Saxon style , it features geometric design (rather than naturalistic representation), flat areas of …
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KELLS, BOOK OF — /kelz/ . See Book of Kells .
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
BOOK OF KELLS — /kelz/ an illuminated manuscript (A.D. c800) in the Hiberno-Saxon style.
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KELLS, BOOK OF — illuminated gospel book (MS. A.I. 6; Trinity College Library, Dublin) that is a masterpiece of the ornate Hiberno-Saxon style. It …
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INGRAM, JOHN KELLS — born July 7, 1823, Temple Carne, County Donegal, Ire. died May 1, 1907, Dublin Irish economic historian who also achieved …
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KELLS, THE BOOK OF — Kells, The Book of /kelz/ BrE AmE an ↑ illuminated (=with the pages decorated with gold paint and other bright …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
BOOK OF KELLS — Illuminated manuscript version of the four Gospels, 0441; late 8thearly 9th century. A masterpiece of the ornate Hiberno-Saxon style , …
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BOOK OF KELLS — a copy of the four Gospels of the Bible made in the 8th century at a religious community in the …
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LINDISFARNE GOSPELS — Lindisfarne . The book was designed and executed by Eadfrith, who became bishop of Lindisfarne in 698. Illuminated in the …
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HIBERNO-SAXON STYLE — Decorative style that resulted when Irish (Hibernian) monks went to England in 635. It mingled the Celtic decorative tradition curvilinear …
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DUBLIN, UNIVERSITY OF — or Trinity College Oldest university in Ireland, founded in 1592 by Elizabeth I and endowed by the city of Dublin. …
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BOOK — I Written (or printed) message of considerable length, meant for circulation and recorded on any of various materials that are …
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ANIMAL INTERLACE — in calligraphy, rich, fanciful decorative motif characteristic of work by the Hiberno-Saxon book artists of the early Middle Ages in …
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MEATH — Irish An Mh, originally Mide, or Midhe, county in the province of Leinster, Ireland. It is bounded by Counties Monaghan …
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MARCH, ROGER MORTIMER, 1ST EARL OF, 8TH BARON OF WIGMORE — born 1287? died Nov. 29, 1330, Tyburn, near London, Eng. lover of the English king Edward II's queen, Isabella of …
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MALACHY, SAINT — born 1094, Armagh, County Armagh, Ire. died Nov. 2/3, 1148, Clairvaux, Fr.; canonized 1190; feast day November 3 Gaelic in …
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KILKENNY — Irish Cill Chainnigh county, province of Leinster, southeastern Ireland. It is bounded by Counties Laoighis (north), Carlow and Wexford (east), …
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IONA — island of the Inner Hebrides, Strathclyde region, Scotland. It is 3 miles (5 km) long by 1.5 miles (2.4 km) …
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INSULAR SCRIPT — in calligraphy, any of several hands that developed in the British Isles after the Roman occupation of England and before …
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HIBERNO-SAXON STYLE — in Western visual arts, the decorative vocabulary that resulted from the interaction of the Irish, or Hibernians, and the Anglo-Saxons …
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GREEN, ALICE STOPFORD — ne Alice Sophia Amelia Stopford born May 30, 1847, Kells, County Meath, Ire. died May 28, 1929, Dublin Irish historian, …
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DUBLIN, UNIVERSITY OF — also called Trinity College oldest university in Ireland, founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland and …
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CEANANNUS MR — formerly Kells, market town and urban district of County Meath, Ireland, on the River Blackwater. The town was originally a …
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ANGLO-SAXON ART — manuscript illumination and architecture produced in Britain from about the 7th century to the Norman Conquest of 1066. Anglo-Saxon art …
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TREASURE — I. trea ‧ sure 1 /ˈtreʒə $ -ər/ BrE AmE noun [ Date: 1100-1200 ; Language: Old French ; Origin: …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
SOUTHEAST — I. south ‧ east 1 BrE AmE , Southeast /ˌsaʊθˈiːst◂/ noun [uncountable] ( written abbreviation SE ) 1 . the …
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