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Arabesque

Arabesque.  An ornamental style or device in imitation of Arabic art employing flower, leaf or fruit with angular and interlaced lines in repeated geometric forms. Often a typographical ornament in lettering on a medallic item.

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S5 {1974} Stafford and Ware, p 25.

excerpted with permission from

An Encyclopedia of Coin and Medal Technology

For Artists, Makers, Collectors and Curators

COMPILED AND WRITTEN BY D. WAYNE JOHNSON

Roger W. Burdette, Editor


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