Word: burlaped
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...hear stooped, 63-year-old René Cormaud, who "does" the rue des Ecoles and the rue Monge, defend chiffonage. Said Cormaud: "It's those fly-by-nights who cause all the trouble. They have no sense of professional standards. Instead of emptying each can carefully on a burlap sack to sort it out, they dump the garbage helter-skelter on the sidewalk. That way they give the profession a bad name...
...proud one. For the first twenty years, the House was a vacant and tumbledown relie, inhabited at the close by a group of religions ascetics who wanted no more than a roof over their heads. In 1922 the last lessee of the building removed the cobwebs, burlap sacks over the fireplaces and the accumulation of fourteen layers of wallpaper and set out to make Hicks House a replica of what it was in 1762. This was done--only to have the building appropriated by a mushrooming College for its present...
...raiders burned all but eleven of Bukowsko's 400 cottages, John Kinglarski, who used to mine coal near Kingston, Pa., said the Ukrainians had burned his plow and stolen two horses and a cow for which he had paid 8,000 zlotys ($80). Kinglarski, who was wrapped in burlap bags, waved an old U.S. passport. "I had beautiful clothes in America," he said...
...last week put on the best Gauguin show yet seen in the U.S. (including 40 paintings and 44 prints and drawings). Not included: the Boston Museum's 14-by-5-ft. masterpiece entitled Whence Do We Come? What Are We? Whither Are We Going?, which Gauguin painted on burlap sacks after trying to poison himself...
...powerful scent of the frangipani tree. His model was his youthful wife, Polok, once one of Bali's best-known native dancers. When the war cut off his supply of oils and canvas, Le Mayeur improvised a new medium. He painted with Javanese sarong dyes on a burlap-like cloth woven from tree fiber. The dye's bright pinks and greens on the rough fabric recalled old European tapestry...